ESPN Host Forced to Apologize after accusing White Player of Only Making Team USA because of ‘Tokenism’

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ESPN anchor Jalen Rose has now finally issued an apology after he claimed that a white basketball player only made the US olympic team because of what he called ‘tokenism.’

As The Daily Wire reports:

ESPN commentator Jalen Rose apologized Sunday for claiming Kevin Love of the Cleveland Cavaliers only made Team USA’s roster as a token white player.

Rose apologized for his comments in a 42-minute Instagram video on Sunday. He did not back off his contention that Love should not have made the roster, however.

Rose also shifted blame back on to his critics, claiming that many people are “trying to assassinate my character or whatever” after he called Love’s addition to the U.S. Olympic team “tokenism.” He said he was apologizing, though, so as not to disrespect “the game” as well as other great NBA players and his late mother Jeanie Rose.

“If I feel like Kevin Love should make the team or not, I’m entitled to my opinion,” Rose said, as reported by Fox News. “You don’t have to like my opinion, you don’t have to like me. There’s a lot of people trying to assassinate my character or whatever, but those people, some of them, have been doing to for like 30 years … that’s how it is when you have the nerve in a lot of peoples’ estimation to be outspoken.”

Will Americans continue to watch mainstream sports networks like ESPN if their anchors and hosts continue to make such deranged and racist comments? Let us know what you think in the comments below.


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John
John
2 years ago

You are entitled to your opinion, like everyone else in this country, but therer is no reverse racism. Black people do not wwn racism, it can be against whites, asians, arabs etc.

Mike W
Mike W
2 years ago
Reply to  John

Kamala Harris dropped out of the primaries before the vote at the time she was only polling at 7% in her own home state. Her job was to secure the black votes. What does that make her? Biden has said black and brown people do not have access to or understand how to use smart phones – home computers and the internet. Don’t hear any complaints about that or Hunter’s repeated use of the n word.

Last edited 2 years ago by Mike W
Craig Terry
Craig Terry
2 years ago

You made the statement and it was wrong to do so. You should lose your job just like someone else would. Why are you an exception to the rule?

Michael DeCaluwe
Michael DeCaluwe
2 years ago

What is “reverse” racism. Rose is a racist and played the “O” card (the opinion card). As far as assassinating his character, why lay blame, he said it!

Beverly
2 years ago

Chelsea Wolfe, a freestyle BMX biker who is the first transgender woman to join the U.S. Olympic team, said on Facebook she hopes to win the competition so that she can “burn a U.S. flag on the podium.” This person should be removed from the team because of being disrespectful to America. Color of skin should not have anything to do with being on a team.

Ellen
2 years ago
Reply to  Beverly

I agree. If they hate the US do much, why do the f***ing leave!

Patriot12
Patriot12
2 years ago
Reply to  Ellen

Problem is that no other country would take them.

MADELINE Orsini-zazueta
MADELINE Orsini-zazueta
2 years ago
Reply to  Beverly

WHY ARE WE ALLOWING THESE HATEFUL PEOPLE ON OUR OLYMPIC US, TEAMS, LETS NOT TAKE ANY MORE SHIT FROM THESE SHITHEADS, GET TOUGH AND KICK THEM OUT==AMERICA RULES THEY DO NOT

Charles
Charles
2 years ago
Reply to  Beverly

Same goes for the Mexicans that come here and fly Mexican flags. If they still like Mexico so darn much, PLEASE go back!

Major Havoc
Major Havoc
2 years ago

Fire the scumbag

benny
benny
2 years ago

I haven’t watched espn in 10 years for that reason & their shows are unwatchable. announcers/commentators are horrible.

Elizabeth Schiemer
Elizabeth Schiemer
2 years ago

If blacks want equality in sports, Mr. Rose, then the NBA should require ALL teams to be 50/50 colored/white players. Right now, I think we all know non whites have a HUGE majority of NBA players. I quit watching NBA because you are a bunch of overpaid self-centered arrogant asses. I also quit watching ESPN because of broadcasters like you, be they white or black.

Michael Bluemke
Michael Bluemke
2 years ago

VERY WELL SAID!!! 👏👏👏

Michael Bluemke
Michael Bluemke
2 years ago

ANOTHER RACIST black!!! This is out of control, why can’t people talk to each other, you know, really talk. I understand white racism is a real problem, kkk, aryans, those IDIOTS ARE BAD PEOPLE, that’s why they mostly reside in PRISON!!! But we also have black supremacists!!! I would bet if we can talk to each other, a lot more of us would likely find friend’s!!! Anyway, jalen rose, isn’t that how you got your job???
Just saying…..

snert
snert
2 years ago

stopped watching espn, except for a few sporting events about 15 years ago, when their politics became #1!!!

John Henry Jones
John Henry Jones
2 years ago

I wouldn’t watch ESPN if they offered me pay me a thousand dollars an hour to watch it! I don’t need money that bad!

David
2 years ago

everything that is said these days is concidered racist so why should anyone say anything to anybody. The art of conversation is gone by the way side to just meaness by every one. what a shame. so now when i’m in a crowd, i just don’t talk..

Nine Island Girl
Nine Island Girl
2 years ago

I’m beginning to think many people complain about these situations, then turn around and continue to watch.
Boggles my mind!!!
If you’re going for complain, please give up watching these losers.
I’m NOT!

Clifton Brewer
Clifton Brewer
2 years ago

Stopped watching a long time ago.

tom
tom
2 years ago

FIRE his (Jalen) Racist A$$ ! IF a WHITE Broadcaster had mad a similar comment – about a Black player – all HELL would break out ! W T F ? “Double Standard” at work here ?

Retired4ever
Retired4ever
2 years ago
Reply to  tom

He works for ESPN right? Enough said.

mike
mike
2 years ago

When people “buy into” such short sighted agendas that only serve the way they think and feel based only on the very limited info they “think” they know because they only hear and listen to the “main stream” media, then they become “self-proclaimed” experts on whatever the current topic is. They, of course, then force themselves into the unintelligently unintentional position of becoming obvious idiots that almost ALL commonly educated people can see.
This has become, if not the most, then at least ONE of the very most common, and WORST, problems that America faces today.
The problem IS NOT black/vs white, or any other nationality, it is the powerful people, or the “want to be,” powerful people who gain, or maintain their power and position, AND WEALTH, by separating us all from each other for their own purposes. And quite extreme purposes they are. Most people don’t realize quite how extreme these purposes are. We, the population of, the PEOPLE of, the world, are here to LOVE each other, to try HARD to understand each other, to support and to help each other as far as possible, and to exist together in as humanly possible harmony as can be, have been LONG hijacked, lied to, and subverted by adverse powers who have been allowed to assume the “international powers” over us all. Please wake up all people, and begin to think independently for yourselves, and to begin to understand where we should be going, instead of where we are being led. It very much pains me to have to state such things, but they should have become very obvious by now, and yet they are still not. Think about all your fellow human beings, not what might separate us, and definitely not what powerful people want to continue to separate us. The peaceful and productive future of this world depends upon it. God bless us everyone, we need it more than we collectively now know.

Patriot12
Patriot12
2 years ago

Not a chance will I watch basketball. There are no rules anymore! No equal justice.

Linda Morgan
Linda Morgan
2 years ago

Well, that was a half &*( apology. In my lifetime, I have seen racism. And it’s mostly been black against whites. So Mr. Rose fits right in there.

Peg M.
Peg M.
2 years ago

that was an un apologetic apology. That just goes to show you what a liar he is in the first place. besides, if you stand by your stance why apologize at all.. It’s okay, you are a racist of color, so keep right on being the ass that you are, an overpaid rhetoric narrator. Maybe you should stick to your script and not make any notes on the side.

Carol Marie Anderson
Carol Marie Anderson
2 years ago

It’s not an apology if you “have to or are forced” to give it. You said it, you meant it, so man up and admit that you can’t take back the words or after effects of those words. Just admit you’re a racist jerk who allowed his mouth to over run his brain!

Robert Ellis
Robert Ellis
2 years ago

oh yeah, white men can’t jump… isn’t that right? Nothing racist about that…..

Retired4ever
Retired4ever
2 years ago

You’re right! I don’t have to like your opinion and I don’t have to like you, I DON’T!

Lbillows
Lbillows
2 years ago

I’m not sure how anyone even heard what rose said with his head so far up his as s.
He’s a hero in his mind.
He should have tried playing a sport, it’s not as easy as that moron thinks.

Alan Doud
Alan Doud
2 years ago

That wasn’t an apology.

Alan Doud
Alan Doud
2 years ago

It is an opinion but obviously of a racist nature. It you can say token black person than why can’t you say token white person. I have no idea if love is or isn’t a token. It is not the first time a white has been the only player on a team if you want to consider a radio station a team. Back in the 1960’s when Dick Biandi Got fired for a semi lewd joke he was picked up by a radio station that was all black people. He was the only white. I can’t remember the call letters of the station. I think it was WAAF

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