ESPN Removes Announcer Because of Name

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(08-24-2017, 07:35 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: You just compared Charlottesville with 9/11.

(I just want to point that out without any other attached comment.)

Actually I was comparing an analogy not the events themselves, context of the response is key. He said it was similar to a white person not wanting to call a game in a predominantly black area which was a false equivalency. My example was that after 9/11 there was an under current of hate towards muslims, and anyone thought to be muslim, in the wake of the tragedy. A person of Muslim faith, or middle eastern decent, probably would have been weery of calling a sporting event in the city of the event weeks after the event occurred. The comparison is the desire to call a sporting even in a specific area in the aftermath of a tragedy associated with a specific group of people that someone could be tied to.