New York Daily News

Field not levelwith dirty hits by bully

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And I say that understand­ing the black male privilege I have in typing that last sentence. The “Angry Black Man” is tolerable, but the “Angry Black Woman” has no place in corporate America.

If Stephen A. Smith would have tweeted what Hill did, the bosses in Bristol wouldn’t have even blinked.

And no one knows that more than former ESPN Grantland writer Rembert Browne.

“ESPN wants black faces not black minds, the end — next topic,” he tweeted on Monday. ”

In November, this country elected a bully to the White House. He bullied the politician­s who sought his party’s nomination. He bullied Hillary Clinton. He bullied Jerry Jones and NFL owners. And how he’s trying to bully ESPN since he knows he can’t bully Jemele Hill.

Thomas Jefferson once said, “When the speech condemns a free press, you are hearing the words of a tyrant.”

Dear ESPN: Grow a pair, and defend yourself against the bully.

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