Bristol, CT – ESPN Broadcaster Robert Lee Taken Off UVA Game Due To Name

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    Robert Lee, a sportscaster for ESPN.Bristol, CT – ESPN broadcaster Robert Lee will not work Virginia’s season opener because of recent violence in Charlottesville sparked by the decision to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

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    A spokeswoman for ESPN says Lee has been moved to Youngstown State’s game at Pittsburgh on the ACC Network on Sept. 2. The network says the decision was made “as the tragic events in Charlottesville were unfolding, simply because of the coincidence of his name.”

    Plans to remove a statue of Lee led to a protest in Charlottesville earlier this month that attracted what is believed to be the largest group of white nationalists to come together in a decade. Violent clashes erupted between a large gathering of white nationalists and hundreds of counter protesters.

    ESPN says the decision to put Lee on another game was made “collectively.” It also says it’s “a shame that this is even a topic of conversation.”


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    6 years ago

    I agree. This is a weird and unjustified consequence. I wish him success in his career. At the same time, I support destroying all monuments to hatred, bigotry, racism, and insurgency against the USA. It’s a wonder to me how the country has allowed for so long any monuments to a leader of a rebellion, a mored bemalchus. My guess is that even though the malchus prevailed, it wasn’t strong enough to exert its power.

    6 years ago

    I really thought theyre joking. These people r beyond deplorable. Its even laughable.

    triumphinwhitehouse
    triumphinwhitehouse
    6 years ago

    it seems it would be racist to do the same to a guy named Mohamed or Osama.

    Oyvey
    Oyvey
    6 years ago

    Nuts!

    6 years ago

    I am at a loss to understand this.

    Is CNN trying to protect Lee from White Supremacists because the latter hate the name Lee and what it erased? Just who are they afraid of? Or are they implicitly admitting that the “counter-protesters” are really the violence to be feared? Or is it they are not afraid of anyone but they hate the name Lee so much they want to remove him and this is an excuse?

    6 years ago

    have a bris and change name to abe lincoln

    puppydogs
    puppydogs
    6 years ago

    Correct me if I am wrong but he is Asian, the original wasn’t Asian. This is sickening.

    puppydogs
    puppydogs
    6 years ago

    This PC nonsense is absurd, we have to thank the Left for this.

    puppydogs
    puppydogs
    6 years ago

    Isn’t this discrimination? How could this be legal?

    Can a waiter elect to not serve a customer simply because his name was Barack or Obama?

    6 years ago

    political correctness gone amuck.

    sissel613
    sissel613
    6 years ago

    This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard!!! That’s name for goodness sake!!

    6 years ago

    Espn should be boycotted. Are they saving only the ultra ignorant aresports friends, because they are saying this when not letting him broadcast

    6 years ago

    The Washington Monument (obelisk) and the Thomas Jefferson Memorial both have to go, because they were slave owners. And of course we should remove their likeness of them from paper currency. These people are crazy, when will it end.