Robert Lee has been removed....

[2forISU]

I'm glad to see ESPN is taking the proper steps to remove Robert Lee from announcing UVA games. You can't make this **** up...

http://www.richmond.com/sports/coll...7-ba0a-0780f035df3d.html?utm_source=RTD Email

 

[CycloneVet]

Wow just smh. I hope he sues the **** out of them.

 

[NetflixAndClone]

Now that's just dumb.

 

[CascadeClone]

That's gotta be made up, right? I saw on FB and assumed it was untrue.

Otherwise, we have indeed arrived at Idiocracy as a society.

 

[ZB4CY]

ESPN sucks

 

[mj4cy]

This is so over the top PC that ESPN actually completely missed the mark on a moment. They could have advanced diversity instead of try to suppress accidental racism. Having a minority (its my understanding he's asian) call the game would show confidence in the talent/character/person with no acknowledgement or worry about the name.

At what point is society going to wake up and realize that destroying or covering up potential racist symbols/ideology is not the same as destroying racism.

I suppose we better call out the Baltimore Ravens organization as pedophiles, perverts, sex offenders, and horribly disgusting human beings because their pxp man is named Gerry Sandusky.

 

[3TrueFans]

Wow just smh. I hope he sues the **** out of them.

As stupid as this is I'm pretty sure ESPN gets to assign people to games as they see fit and I don't think your name is a protected class.

 

[chuckd4735]

I agree with Keith Murphy. Had they kept the guy on the broadcast, no one probably would of even noticed, and if they did, they would of been ridiculed for making any news out of it. By doing this, ESPN made a story about it, a story that would not of been there had they just let it be.

 

[3TrueFans]

I agree with Keith Murphy. Had they kept the guy on the broadcast, no one probably would of even noticed, and if they did, they would of been ridiculed for making any news out of it. By doing this, ESPN made a story about it, a story that would not of been there had they just let it be.

Someone definitely would have noticed, but it just would have been a meme on Reddit or Twitter and not a big deal.

 

[mj4cy]

Side note, this Robert Lee just became famous overnight.

 

[jkclone]

I was waiting for this to pop up. I had thought the complaints about stuff like this were overstated and the problems were more with sensationalism but this is so ridiculous. Keith Murphy said it best that this will get more attention now than it would have.

 

[CloneLawman]

I'm glad to see ESPN is taking the proper steps to remove Robert Lee from announcing UVA games. You can't make this **** up...

http://www.richmond.com/sports/college/football/espn-switches-announcer-named-robert-lee-off-of-u-va/article_eacaf73c-87a0-11e7-ba0a-0780f035df3d.html?utm_source=RTD Email

They need to find an announcer whose name includes components from the following list:

Abraham, Lincoln, Ulysses, Grant, William, Tecumseh, Sherman, Harriet, Tubman, Mary, Meachum, Frederick, Douglass, Moncure, or Conway.

Maybe Bobby Lee could legally change his name to Billy Sherman in a touching gesture. But if he does that, he should probably call Georgia games.

 

[chuckd4735]

Wow just smh. I hope he sues the **** out of them.

Sue for what? I doubt Lee cares what game he calls. In fact, I doubt he even cared that they took him off this broadcast and assigned him to another.

 

[CycloneVet]

As stupid as this is I'm pretty sure ESPN gets to assign people to games as they see fit and I don't think your name is a protected class.

You could easily sue for discrimination if you wanted to. The stupid going around knows no bounds.

 

[3TrueFans]

You could easily sue for discrimination if you wanted to. The stupid going around knows no bounds.

You could sue for whatever the **** you want, but I highly doubt there is actionable discrimination here.

 

[keepngoal]

General Lee was Asian?

 

[3TrueFans]

General Lee was Asian?

Your history teachers don't want you to know this simple fact!

 

[chuckd4735]

You could easily sue for discrimination if you wanted to. The stupid going around knows no bounds.

How is he being discriminated? Its solely a (stupid) PR move. Hes not losing pay or losing a chance to advance his career (in fact, this will probably make his career take off), he is simply being reassigned to another game.

 

[intrepid27]

Anyone else find it ironic that the guy is a minority???? (Asian) . ESPN missed the chance to celebrate their eclectic diversity. But instead they are cowering under their desks like a bunch of weenies.

 

[coolerifyoudid]

Meanwhile, in HR at ESPN, Vladimir Jones shifts uncomfortably in his desk chair.