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That’s the world we live in. They will do anything to keep a black person down.

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Well, ESPN had very limited coverage on the Ben Rothlisberger(what ever his name is)situation and they are not giving this situation any coverage either!! Face it people. The media is only going to show you what they want you to see!! If this was a analyst that worked for another company then it would be all over thier station!! Every fu**ing hour!! I cant say that this is a racist issue because ESPN has a lot of Black analyst working for them.

The past will never be forgotten! So I do believe we live in a world full of ignorance and this is (sad but true) everywhere you go! So it’s very possible in this case!

I there is a double standard by ESPN. But remember ESPN also could be acting with caution, simply because the black guy sued them and settled out of court and he recieved a large settlement…So lets wait and see how this plays out, many of us didnt even know Mr. Reynolds was fired form ESPN because of a hug…

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Unfortunately – there are double standards in EVERYTHING in America. This isn’t surprising. The surprising thing is how Black people continue to support the people who dish out the double standards against them. That’s what amazes me. It’s SAD. All you have to do is TURN THEM OFF, but so many can’t even do that – so we continue to get FREAKED.

Get your information together, use your resources, get good representation and sue the company for discrimination and wrongful termination…

Harold is so handsome!!!!

Big coeporations like ESPN usually have very strict sexual harrassment rules in place to limit the company’s liability in case they get sued. Consentual sexual relationships among employees probably isn’t too big of a deal to the company because they aren’t legally liable for the realtionship of two consenting adults. Even though I would assume that such flings wouldn’t be encouraged.

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That’s the world we live in. They will do anything to keep a black person down.
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You pretty much summed it all up. Black men, I don’t care how high you go up on that ladder, you are still black. It’s best that you stay in your lane and learn how to play their game.

THE WHITE MAN IS THE DEVIL!!!!

I agree the white dude should get fired. This smacks of racism. Steve Phillips has had a looong history of having sexual relations with assistants. He was also caught, allegedly, in compromising sexual situations with ladies. But his white behind was never fired.

Harold Reynolds kicked up dust creatively with the head brass at ESPN. So, they used whatever they could pin on him to fire him.

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Not sure where you received your law degree from but a person who carries on a consenual affair in the workplace CAN sue for sexual harassment and WILL win… non consensual contact is a crime not a civil suit… sexual harassment only requires that the employer allowed a sexually charged environment… so this intern/production assistant whatever the hell she is can still bring a civil suit against ESPN… all she has to say is she felt pressured to have a sexual relationship with him to keep her job…

Of course it’s a double standard… and if you think that a white man won’t take a chance to stick to a black man who’s getting it in with a white chick then u should relocate somewhere else

There is ALWAYS “protection with the complexion.” There has always, will always be a double standard when it comes to race.

The New York Post web site has copies of the statements that Phillips, his wife and son gave to the police about this unbalanced woman stalking their family. There is also a bat ish crazy letter that Brooke wrote to his wife…He picked the wrong woman to have an affair with.

These are two different situations. Charges were filed against Reynolds by the woman. In the other case Phillips case he was the one that was being harrassed. it is not a double standard. You can’t fire someone for having an affair but many companies have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to sexual harrassment.

There is no double standard in this case what so ever. One was a case of harassment and one was consensual. Yes one was black and the other white, but totally different situations. Please let’s save our race cards and picket line requests for one that really matters.

Come On People

These are two different situations. Charges were filed against Reynolds by the woman. In the other case Phillips case he was the one that was being harrassed. it is not a double standard. You can’t fire someone for having an affair but many companies have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to sexual harrassment.

Harold Reynolds is a Analyst for MLB Network which is run,owned and operated by Major League baseball. He recived a 7 figure settlement from ESPN and he is doing very well. ESPN is owned and operated by Disney. Steve Phillips will find himself without a job very soon when the dust settles. Coming fresh off of the heels of the entire Erin Andrews scandal Disney will not allow any more bad press and will show Phillips the door the same way they did Sean Salisbury.

“There is no double standard in this case what so ever. One was a case of harassment and one was consensual. Yes one was black and the other white, but totally different situations. Please let’s save our race cards and picket line requests for one that really matters.”
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I agree here.

HELL YES its a double standard, you know damn well the white man is scared of anything black, especially a big black man with a big black di-k!! That BBD thing has always had white men scared as hell~! And those skanky white women run to them even more~!! She probably was all up in the black mans face and he was just being kind.. BLACK MEN WAKE THE HELL UP!!

AS LONG AS BLACKMEN ARE AT THE MERCY OF WHITEMEN TO HIRE THEM FOR A JOB YOU WILL ALWAYS HAVE THIS GOING ON. BLACK MEN SHOULD TRY TO OWN/PURCHASE BUSINESS. IT MAKES ME WONDER WHY THESE GUYS MAKE SO MUCH MONEY BUT DIE BROKE. THEY DON’T EVEN OWN THEIR OWN HOMES. WHY WOULD A PERSON MAKING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TAKE OUT A MORGAGE ON A HOME. THEY HAVE NO NEGOTIATION SKILLS. MY HUSBAND IS WHITE AND WE HAVE ALREADY PAID OFF OUR HOME.

The real problem is the woman who filed charges over a hug.

Something has to be done with the whole male/female harassment double standard. As long as it exists men may be afraid to hire attractive women. I know I am.

Reynolds should have sued the lady who filed the false charge as well. You have to make a message that we will not tolerate this from anyone the accuser or the accused!!!

Are you guys shocked?

we need a black sports station period. All the big wigs who own these companies are racist period!!!

Come on this is AMERICA!!!!!!!

Stop trying to start something!!!!!

A case of affair gone wrong DOES NOT = claim of sexual harrassment.

How do you know it wasn’t harassment???? Touching of almost any kind WILL get you fired at alot of companies — no matter what the intent.

Y’all are really stretching today….

It could just be that ESPN does not want to pay out another settlement for a wrongful termination. This time maybe they are not trying to be so quick to fire.

@ATL: YES that is the train wreck of a woman who he was having the affair with..It’s typical behavior though. Handsome men often have affairs with homely, unattractive women when they have beautiful wives at home. It’s easier to control them and shame them into silence..

ITA with Cherokee23! These are 2 very different situations. Phillips endangered his family. Reynolds put ESPN at risk.

Not at all, we live in a new postmodern era of racial understanding. Obama proves that we’ve arrived as a people. Chances are the caucasian man was just misunderstood. Humping your coworkers is completely okay. (I’m doing it now in fact.)

Im a black male, and I really don’t feel like this is an issue..1st off these r 2 different allegations set apart 3 years from each other, I’m not condoning what ESPN did with either Reynolds but apparently he had an affair, compared 2 a false report of sexual harassment, there will always be bias but we have a black president, we gotta stop splitting hairs..

When has there not been a double standard for blacks in an otherwise parrallell position to whites? Salary, hiring, firing, (jail sentencing)… It’s the status quo..

I got two words…”two Americas.” Black and White.

THE WHITE LADY REPORTED HIM THAT HE HUGGED! THAT’S HIS PROBLEM! AS A BLK MEN HE SHOULD ALREADY KNOW HOW TO PLAY THE GAME!!! AS A BLK WOMEN AFTER MY WORK IS DONE IN CORPORATE AMERICA I STAY FAR AWAY IN AREAS WHERE ALOT OF BIG TIME WHITE PPL ARE! WHITE PPL STICK TOGETHER, ALL OF THEM R IN TOGETHER! ESPECIALLY ON THESE JOBS! THATS WHY I KEEP ME AN EMPLOYMENT LAWYER WHILE IM WORKING AT THIS BIG TIME COMPANY!

I SAID IT BEFOR AND I’LL SAY IT AGAIN….THE ENTIRE PLANET EARTH HATES BLACK PEOPLE.

THE END.

I swear, some white people are flat out like their dad, THE DEVIL. And when some blacks gonna learn that the Devil is alive and they just can’t get all “cozy” with some? Lamar Odom, that guy will see his marraige won’t last 2 years, dummy.

Just SMH at this dumb display with ESPN, just like FOX News, just plain trash.

@ george smiley
lol so true.

The double standard still exists to this day.

oh well……….another one on the unemployment line.

I’m not sure if “double standards” applies in this instance, since the two situations were different. BUT, I do think it’s interesting that Phillips has a known history of the very behavior for which he is now being suspended. His prior job was being the General Manager of the NY Mets, from which was fired in 2003. Part of the reasoning for his firing was sexual relationships with women that worked for the organization, including one with a receptionist who threatened a sexual harassment lawsuit. So, ESPN knew what kind of employee he would be (and the kind of trouble he could cause), but hired him anyway. Well, you get what you pay for.

I know he got paid off those crackerass crackers smh

Honestly, I wanted to think that it wasn’t true but the fact of the matter is we as a people(black) will never be treated equal you see it every day with our president the disrespect that they show him is unreal,Bush got the country into this mess yet it all falls on Obama. The media has disrespected the president’s children, printed racist pic’s and articles, and he’s the president it will forever be a black and white issue, in the year of 2009 white people removed there children from a pool cause black kids got in the water.That similar incident happen to Dorthy Dandridge in 1942, so tell me black america do you buy it when they say we are equal? this incident with these two men or just one of way to many….

@neva a hater

So true…100% co-sign. We (black ppl) need to stop looking to white people for validation!

‘double standards’

like you all aren’t familiar, how that works….

“We (black ppl) need to stop looking to white people for validation!”
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that will NEVER stop. You have too many sell-out and crossovers, to make blk men stop looking for wht validation. Then the blk women follows the blk man,because she can’t find another mate, that will love her for her…All this started when? When blk men started selling out in mass drovs, so that they could win the apprival of who? A wht woman, that they want to settle down with. And then that’s equality, espceially if he can get her to push out some mixed breed babies, He will treat her better than he would treat his mother, father or wife. No, it’s going to take a lot more than this, to make blk men wake up… And another thing, when it comes down to a wht female and blk man , they will isten to the wht female, EVERY TIME.

So think about that, when you realize how much it will cost you to keep your wht woman. And how much it will cost to keep her on that pedestal…
Peace,love and hairgrease.

Major League Baseball didn’t fire Harold Reynolds, ESPN did.

There is a dobule standard working here nad even those who try to hide behind “the situations are different” are full of BS. Harold Reynolds got fired for hugging a white woman. Last time I checked, it isn’t sexual harassment when someone is hugged. All she had to do was pull away if she didn’t want to be hugged. Sounds more and more like HR was set up to me. Word is that before he settled his suit, his lawyer was going to drop some bombshelss in court about what goes on at ESPN between men and women and the one mane they were going to bring up was Steve Phillips. For those of you who don’t know. Steven Philips was fired by the NY Mets in 2003 becuase he was accuased of sexual harassment by a former employee who he admitted he slept with. He and the Mets endued up settling the case with the woman out of court. He was hired by ESPN with his sordeid history wiht women he worked with (he slept with other female Mets employees) and now everyone is surprised that it happened again. Why how he is being trated is a double standard is that it doesn’t matter that the relationship was consentual; the fact was he opened himself up to being accused of sexual harassment be sleeping with a subordiante (she was a production assistant for baseball telecasts). This whole scandal is far from over. According the the NY Post, this is evidence that he slept with other female ESPN employees. In additoin, when he does get fired (I can’t see him keeping his job), they will let his contract laspe or end it based on a morals cluase. The same thing happened to white football analyst Sean Salisbury. Whem he was accused of showing his ying yang to some women at a party, they let his contract laspe without outright firing him.

Face it, there are different standards for blacks and whites; a super high standard for blacks and a gutter one for whites.

yo tha really made me think about double standard on espn cuz harold reynolds made a apporiate gesture and got da pink one and steve phillips who smashing this I cant call her a chick really lol get a va kay ? harold bounce back he on MLB Network.

It’s ashame that a female can say anything as far as a hug is wrong and press charges,it’s cases like this that make it hard for the ppl who really do get sexually harrassed to be taken serious just because she is a money hungry hoe trying to find an easy way out.She needs a beat down.I bet she didn’t say ish when he was giving her a friendly hug she probably waited a good 2 or 3 weeks got some bills in the mail and started accusing.I have no respect for itchs like her.

And uck espn to.

Have you ever considered the possibility that they learned their lesson from the first incident? When all investigations are concluded and he has been found guilty then yes he should be let go. But to dismiss him early would be sending them down the road they’ve already gone and opening them up to another lawsuit.
As for the media showing us what they want us to see… that’s dead on the money. But we can’t expect ESPN to report on one of their own cheats can we??

If I didn’t think the black man should’ve known better, I’d feel really bad for him. Where I live a black man can’t hardly ask a white woman for the time without them thinking their trying to hit on them. It doesn’t matter if their 60 years old, 500 pounds, with a peg leg on an elephant thigh, a black man can walk by them eating something good and smack his lips and they will think its aimed towards them. Being that black men have stood in for white men on holding them up on a pedastal, I can get out my afro style clock with the “wake up negro” alarm on it and set it beside the hard bed that you made.

I agree though, someone coming forward on you with a sexual complaint, is a totally different than a love triangle with 2 willing partners.