The former director of ESPN, Norby Williamson, wanted to “make Sportscenter great again”, and for that, Jemele Hill sees him as his own Donald Trump.
Hill, a columnist, Trump Critic and the former sports centers, opened his stay in ESPN during an appearance in the Rick Strom Show.
An important figure at the Connecticut Campus d’Espn, Connecticut, for a better part of 40 years, Williamson left the network in 2024 after the current star of the Pat McAfee network accused him of having tried to sabotage his day talk show.
Williamson wrote a grateful letter to the colleagues by leaving, making no mention of the disgruntled host or his claims and the New York Post later reported that his departure had not come to McAfee’s request.
Hill also claimed the victim of another Williamson sabotage. It is only in the case of the “SC6″ restarted to sports centers, Hill says that Williamson was determined to “ dé-Blackify ”, a show welcomed two African-Americans-herself and Michael Smith.
“He just seemed very intentional and useful that he wanted to make sports centers again,” said Hill, giving a tip to Trump.
Norby Williamson
Michael Smith and Jemele Hill interviews the Michigan basketball coach, Tom Izzo
Hill said Williams had deleted the photos from the stars of Tommie Smith’s track and the famous ‘Black Power’ from John Carlos at the 1968 Olympic as well as photos of Smith and Hill alongside Barack and Michelle Obama. He also scratched the intro music of DJ Jazzy Jeff, according to Hill.
And although Hill has long been accused of politicizing sports coverage, she insisted that the incursions of SC6 in politics were always directly linked to the subject of hand.
“If there was a political or social problem, it was definitively linked to sports and it was definitively in the news,” said Hill. “This is something that many blacks know, which is your presence is just political. Whether you like it or not. So really, what they were trying to say was: “Where did these two blacks get and why are they on the 6 hours of sportscenter?” “”
Hill was suspended by ESPN that year for qualifying Trump as a “racist” and left the network a year later. She is now a columnist for the Atlantic in addition to hosting several podcasts.
SC6 was ESPN’s attempt to update the hour at 6 o’clock in the network brand show, which helped establish the world leader as cultural force in the 80s and 1990s. The network disconnected the project in 2018.
Dailymail.com attempts to contact Williamson for a response have failed so far.
