A new ESPN+ series incredibly likens professional athletes to modern-day slaves and their lucrative contracts to the chains that keep them in bondage to the white man.
Without much fanfare, the sports network produced the five-part series “Skin in the Game” featuring Ibram X. Kendi, a notorious racial grievance pimp whose crackpot theory that the best way to combat racism is with more racism has spread like wildfire in post-Obama America, taking root in corporate boardrooms and HR departments nationwide.
“The series delves into and challenges racism in the sports world, and will reveal how pervasive racism is in sports, while challenging the thoughts and systems of various governing bodies,” the Disney-owned network’s press release reads.
In the first episode titled “Power to the Players” which focuses on professional athletes using public platforms to evangelize for the new “woke” religion, Kendi sits down with journalist Howard Bryant and Olympian hammer thrower Gwendolyn Berry who likened multi-million dollar contacts to human bondage.
Outkick founder and nationally syndicated talk radio host Clay Travis brought attention to the silly premise when he shared a clip of the episode to X, formerly known as Twitter.
This is airing on @espn right now. Athletes are the new slaves and contracts are the new slave chains. pic.twitter.com/XVJDGsjHLL
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) October 7, 2023
“It’s almost like the contracts, you know, are the new slave chains right?” Berry asks. “So you know, you have to sign this contract and sign this document and sign this document and it’s like you’re binded to this.”
“And then if you break that, that’s your livelihood, that’s your life,” she added. “So we the new slaves.”
“Athletes are literally the new slaves because we need this. Our families, our friends depend on this contract to eat,” Berry said.
Travis pointed out a major flaw with her argument.
I must have missed the part of the history books where slaves were free agents and made millions of dollars to voluntarily play a game.
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) October 7, 2023
“I must have missed the part of the history books where slaves were free agents and made millions of dollars to voluntarily play a game,” he wrote.
In 2017, ESPN was forced to apologize for a segment about a fantasy football auction draft after complaints that it was like a slave auction.
“Auction drafts are a common part of fantasy football, and ESPN’s segments replicated an auction draft with a diverse slate of top professional football players,” the network said in a statement. “Without that context, we understand the optics could be portrayed as offensive, and we apologize.”
“Through Dr. Kendi’s analysis, athlete profiles, and robust roundtable discussions with athletes, academics and journalists, each episode dives deeply into the histories, statistics and notable moments behind the racist norms we accept today,” the ESPN press release states.
In the five episodes, Kendi examines such topics as “race norming, the practice of adjusting aptitude scores based on race or ethnicity, and its use in professional sports,” “the lack of diversity in sports media and how it impacts the coverage of athletes of color,” and “how Latino baseball players are bringing their cultures to America’s pastime while juggling the pressure to assimilate,” according to the network’s news release.
(Video: YouTube/ESPN marketing.
There was a time when ESPN was satisfied with merely being the foremost sports outlet in America but like practically every other institution in the land, has mutated after being affected with the “woke” mind virus.
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