Jemele Hill has upset thousands of people with her recent comments.
CNN contributor Scott Jennings went toe-to-toe with the progressive writer over the Supreme Court allowing the Trump administration to implement its ban on transgender individuals in the U.S. military.
“There’s a few things that bother me about this, and mostly it was the language of the policy, right? Hill started off her argument.
When looking — reading some of these words, transgender people as ‘inherently untruthful, undisciplined, dishonorable.’ That’s, like, a very weighty thing to say about people who are courageously deciding to protect this country. The other problem, Scott, is that it’s never enough. It’s bathrooms today, it’s sports tomorrow. It’s the military today,” Hill said.
Scott quickly jumped in and stated that men using women’s bathrooms and men playing women’s sports are already major issues. He also noted that the vast majority of Americans do not support any of it.
That is when Jemele Hill took it to another level, by first mentioning that sometimes the majority of what people think is wrong.
“That’s fine. And guess what? The majority sometimes is wrong. That also happens, right?
She then compared the push for transgenders in women’s sports to Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement.
Because the majority used to believe that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was somebody who was a threat, somebody who was not a good American,” she replied. “The majority of people used to be against civil rights. Were they right? No, they weren’t,” she said in response.
Later on in the conversation, Scott asked Jemele Hill if she really believes President Trump should recruit people who are “vulnerable.”
She said Trump should allow people to join the military if that is what they want.
“It’s really kind of ironic considering he dodged the draft that he suddenly has an opinion” on who gets to be in the military, Hill said.
Jemele Hill Once Called Donald Trump A White Supremacist
On 11 September 2017, she would post something about Donald Trump that would change her life.
Hill posted: “Donald Trump is a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself w/ other white supremacists.”
The tweet generated backlash from sports fans, the media, and, eventually, Trump himself.
ESPN issued a statement saying Hill’s comments do not represent the network, that they had addressed the issue, and that she recognized that her actions were inappropriate.
ESPN suspended Hill for two weeks for violating the company’s social media policy, but only after she tweeted about Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones’ declaration that none of his players should kneel during the national anthem.
