Black Reporter on ESPN Possibly Replacing Black Host with Another Black Host: ‘We’re Not Interchangeable’

‘—Because maybe no one will notice?’

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
ALCINDOR: "The first is that we have Sarah Huckabee Sanders using the podium to talk about firing a private citizen. That to me is problematic. That to me borders on bullying from the White House."
TODD: "In your mind, that's a separate issue."
ALCINDOR: "I don't know if it is separate but it is one issue of the the second issue is that we have reports that ESPN is looking at an African-American woman saying let's pull her and add another black people to that spot because maybe no one will notice. African-American journalists, some of they will are part of association that I'm part of, African-American journalists are taking a stand and saying we are not interchangeable. You cannot take one of us out and put in another one and say we've fixed the problem. What ESPN should do, I have to say that I think she should be employed, if the standard is that you get a warning and then if you continue to violate, you get fired. That should be how a woman, a black woman on ESPN should be treated."

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