Jemele Hill Says Media Wants To Maintain Jerry Jones Accountable, LeBron’s Proper!

Jemele Hill is urging the media to not let Jerry Jones off the hook amid his racial controversy … saying LeBron James was fully proper to name out reporters for not giving the Dallas Cowboys proprietor comparable protection as Kyrie Irving.

Hill joined Harvey and Charles on “TMZ Reside” to debate the Lakers celebrity’s postgame message on Thursday … and she or he believes Black figures and athletes are consistently criticized to a a lot harsher diploma within the media.

“This isn’t to say that there ought to be no room for accountability, in fact,” Hill says. “However it appears that evidently it simply is nonstop, and over and again and again and it is fixed.”

Hill says Jones’ “curious child” rationalization for attending a desegregation protest as a 14-year-old in 1957 is inadequate … and claims his affect as an NFL proprietor is another excuse why he wasn’t pressed to elucidate his stance additional, when Kyrie was requested repeatedly about whether or not he was antisemitic.

“I feel the distinction in [Jerry] and Kyrie within the remedy isn’t solely a failure by the media, it is also a distinction in energy,” Hill stated.

“Kyrie, he is a ’employee’ within the NBA. Jerry Jones is an proprietor, and as an proprietor he will get to dictate the principles of engagement, so to talk. He additionally does not need to reply to the media as typically as Kyrie Irving does.”

The Atlantic reporter factors out there’s a professional motive for journalists to ask LeBron about Jones’ attendance on the ’57 occasion … particularly contemplating his historical past as a diehard Cowboys fan and his earlier feedback denouncing the crew’s dealing with of the nationwide anthem demonstrations.

Jemele suggests the state of affairs could be dealt with fully in a different way if one thing just like the Jones picture controversy occurred within the NBA … just because the gamers run the league as an alternative of the house owners, and so they would not let it fly.