Racist As HELL: ESPN’s Lil’ Athlete Auction Sketch Was Disturbingly Inappropriate, Odell Beckham Responds
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ESPN Air Offensive Athlete Auction, Odell Beckham Jr. Responds
WTF was some azzhole producer thinking?!?!
ESPN isn’t everyone’s cup o’ tea, but they employ lots of Black voices and have recently been considered too politcal and “liberal” by those who think the network’s journalists and talking heads should “stick to sports”.
That said, the Get Out-esque athlete auction sketch that the “worldwide leader” aired this week was not only tone deaf, but just plain stupid.
Soooooo ESPN just did an "auction" sketch 🤔 pic.twitter.com/zvezCItems
— Jᴀsᴏɴ (@rjasonscales) August 14, 2017
Anyone who has ANY surface knowledge of slavery and how Black folks were sold would recognize how problematic this skit is. But furthermore, there wasn’t a SINGLE Black face in the crowd.
A gang of white people bidding on the chance to become the “owner” of majority Black athletes. Naw. Hell F**K naw.
As the first athlete on the block, Odell Beckham Jr. responded:
Speechless. https://t.co/CddZ917y4u
— Odell Beckham Jr (@OBJ_3) August 15, 2017
This wasn’t the end of it, Twitter deflated all of ESPN’s balls in way that would make Tom Brady blush.
Check out the reactions as well as ESPN’s “apology” on the flip.
Image via Ronald Martinez/Getty Images
Via USAToday
“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. Without that context, we understand the optics could be portrayed as offensive, and we apologize,”
See what Odell Beckham Jr had to say about being “sold” to the white man on the next page…
Speechless. https://t.co/CddZ917y4u
— Odell Beckham Jr (@OBJ_3) August 15, 2017
Hey @espn, your fantasy football draft auction segment resembles……. pic.twitter.com/L8HmRNJuCf
— Danté Peterson (@tayp22) August 15, 2017
So @espn who's idea was it to auction off football players ?? U guys might wanna address this optic sooner than later
— OldMan Ebro (@oldmanebro) August 15, 2017
ESPN sold Odell on an auction block to a crowd of White people. In 2017.
— DJ Steph Floss (@djstephfloss) August 15, 2017
@espn: "hey let's get a bunch of white people and auction off ODB. You know like the movie, people liked that movie" pic.twitter.com/aJU3ybYTzL
— Steve Angelovich (@angelsteve89) August 15, 2017
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Really @espn?
An all white auction bidding on Black athletes?
Save your crappy prewrittern pr excuse; I'm disgusted 😑😤#BoycottESPN pic.twitter.com/myGKRoxJDK— EmmanTheMann (@EPierre_Libra93) August 15, 2017
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