ESPN Surrenders To Political Correctness as Lee Is Removed from Broadcast

Today ESPN announced the removal of Robert Lee, an Asian-American part-time announcer who calls some of the college football and basketball games for the network. Mr. Lee was scheduled to broadcast the September 2nd game in Charlottesville, Va., which earlier this month witnessed violent clashes during a white supremacist gathering. White nationalists and neo-Nazi supporters marched through the University of Virginia campus with torches, to protest the city’s plan to remove a statue of Confederate general, Robert E. Lee. After the violence in Charlottesville, which left one person dead, ESPN executives and Mr. Lee decided that for his safety it would be best to have him work a different game, an ESPN spokesman announced in a release.

PageBreaks Take: A new high/low for political correctness as ESPN believes viewers will have difficulty distinguishing between the living, Asian-American announcer and the long dead Confederate general. Thankfully, Keith Jackson has retired, as his name bares an uncomfortable similarity to Stonewall Jackson.

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