Well, well, well…ole Sage Steele is upset that she’s finally been excluded from the brother and sisterhood that she’s never wanted to be apart of in the first place. Apparently, ole girl is hot that she was excluded from a recent special that ESPN aired on race.
According to the Wall Street Journal, she claims that she was blackballed by her black colleagues for not being an “authentic voice” for the culture.
Steele complained to ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro last month telling him how disappointed she was for not being chosen for the June 24 special “Time for Change: We Won’t be Defeated.” Elle Duncan, Michael Eaves, Jay Harris and Maria Taylor were chosen for the special. According to her, Eaves and Duncan blocked her from being on the special.
The WSJ reports, “Ms. Steele said colleagues told her she was considered for the special by the executive in charge, Michael Fountain, until two of the other on-air personalities involved, Elle Duncan and Michael Eaves, complained, saying Ms. Steele wouldn’t be accepted by what they considered the Black community, according to the person familiar with her account to management.”
The special was focused on exploring black athletes’ experiences with injustice.
So let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! If the special was about black athletes’ experience with injustice. Why on earth would they include a woman that doesn’t even think that she’s black and the same woman that literally spoke out against Colin Kaepernick for kneeling?
Kaepernick made it clear from Day 1 that he was protesting against police brutality, racial and social injustice and a black woman with an ESPN platform to reach millions spoke out against what he was doing? Why would they include her in a conversation about race and injustice?
She defended the decision not to sign Kaepernick as well. Is that not racial injustice? She wants the guy to be blackballed but wants to be included on a show that’s focused on injustice? Where is this chick from?
Let’s me put it where the goats can get it. She’s from Carmel, Indiana just north of Indianapolis where she purposely chose not to identify with black culture. I know tons of black folks from Carmel that identify with being black. So she chose not to on purpose. How do I know that? Because she went to Indiana University where I went to school and not a single black person that I know that went there even knew her.
Sure, she’s 6 years younger than I am but both my brother and sister were in school at IU at the same time she was and NOBODY black knew her. I know or know of everybody black that went to UI and I darn sure would know a person on ESPN. It wasn’t until a few years ago I even found out that she went to IU. That’s a problem. I shouldn’t have known that because she’s on ESPN. I should have known that because we knew the same people.
How is that even possible? There wasn’t but 1,200 black folks on campus at any time and that includes the graduate students. I know most black folks that attended IU that range 6 to 7 years before and after me because we all have common friends and family that went to school there.
Again, how is it possible for her to go to IU and nobody black knows her? There’s no way she should have been included in that special and I applaud Elle Duncan and Michael Eaves for keeping her off of it. It would have been like listening to Candace Owens, Stacy Dash or Jason Whitlock talk side ways and backwards. While everyone is talking about finding solutions to racial injustice in America they’re trying to tell the world that racial injustice doesn’t exist and that it’s black folks fault.
Nobody that really wants change in America wants to hear from them. Only those that want the status quo want to hear from them. Stage Steele doesn’t speak for black people in America because she doesn’t identify with black people. Just because your skin is dark doesn’t mean that you understand the culture. You have to embrace the culture to respect the culture. Stop me when I start lyin’!
