guard position. no? just checking. marquette-miami what s up with you guys? you jumped right into it. swam it hard. awkward. and as the night wore on, gottlieb s critics piled on calling the comment he made racist, inappropriate. espn s mark may eat sweeted after doug gottlieb s ignorant comment on cbs, he should be canned. sports analyst later released a statement through cbs saying, it was not a smart thing to say and apologize. the question we re asking tonight is was the joke really out of line? outfront tonight, columbia university professor mark lamont hill, cnn contributor and columnist elzi anderson. gentlemen, welcome on this friday night. dean, i m going to let you have first crack at this here because people have been jumping all
fiven story out front, the white man s perspective. doug gottlieb caused quite a controversy last night after being introduced during the network s ncaa coverage, he joked about being the only white guy on a panel of black former basketball players. cream rising to the crop. i m just here to bring diversity to this set, give the white man s perspective on the point guard position. no? just checking. marquette-miami what s up with you guys? you jumped right into it. swam it hard. awkward. and as the night wore on, gottlieb s critics piled on calling the comment he made racist, inappropriate. espn s mark may eat sweeted after doug gottlieb s ignorant comment on cbs, he should be canned. sports analyst later released a statement through cbs saying, it was not a smart thing to say and apologize.
it s funny to sit here and be part of a panel and talk about poverty and did you find it offensive? i did, as a black person. mark lamont hill, you agree with l.z. that that s totally different? wow. there we go. the archives. answer that, mark. damn you and your tapes! i would like to reiterate dean is racist. mark! i was misquoted. no, look, there are different dynamics between black and white. one of the challenges we have in america is we like to pretend black and white are opposite sides of the same coin and they re not. one has the power to name, one has the power to control, one has institutional authority, one has wide representation. the other one does not. so it s just different dynamics to compare black and white. i m not ready to pull out a picket sign on this guy. i think it s just a bad joke, he
to this set, give the white man s perspective on the point guard position. no? just checking. marquette-miami what s up with you guys? you jumped right into it. swam it hard. awkward. and as the night wore on, gottlieb s critics piled on calling the comment he made racist, inappropriate. espn s mark may eat sweeted after doug gottlieb s ignorant comment on cbs, he should be canned. sports analyst later released a statement through cbs saying, it was not a smart thing to say and apologize. the question we re asking tonight is was the joke really out of line? outfront tonight, columbia university professor mark lamont hill, cnn contributor and columnist elzi anderson. gentlemen, welcome on this friday night. dean, i m going to let you have first crack at this here because people have been jumping all
over him online, on twitter as you can imagine. should he be canned over the comment? absolutely not. the joke was not look, we re adults. we know the difference between somebody demonizing and someone being somebody demonizing and being playful. he s joking around with his colleagues. that doesn t mean people won t be outraged. people tweet in capital letters i m outraged. we live in a world of hyper sensitivity. this man is just a victim of that. if he was truly being racist, i would be there criticizing as well. it was a playful joke. that s it. let s laugh about it or don t laugh. playful, joke? first, i would like to say that dean is racist. mark, how dare you? come on now, mark lamont hill. don t be starting anything tonight. i m just saying. hey, if he disagrees with me he must be racist. that s the rules. first of all, i doubt that this guy is a bad person at the core. i think he just made an attempt at humor and dean can probably