Jemele Hill Says Media Needs To Hold Jerry Jones Accountable, LeBron’s Right!

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 Live” to debate the Lakers famous person’s postgame message on Thursday … and she or he believes Black figures and athletes are continually criticized to a a lot harsher diploma within the media.

“This is to not say that there needs to be no room for accountability, in fact,” Hill says. “But plainly it simply is nonstop, and over and over and over 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 one more reason why he wasn’t pressed to elucidate his stance additional, when Kyrie was requested repeatedly about whether or not he was antisemitic.

“I believe the distinction in [Jerry] and Kyrie within the therapy will not be solely a failure by the media, it is also a distinction in energy,” Hill mentioned.

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

The Atlantic reporter factors out there’s a official 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 staff’s dealing with of the nationwide anthem demonstrations.

Jemele suggests the scenario can be dealt with fully in a different way if one thing just like the Jones photograph controversy occurred within the NBA … just because the gamers run the league as a substitute of the homeowners, and so they would not let it fly.