Five years after a Deadspin investigation prompted Brandeis University to fire its men’s basketball coach following allegations of blatant racism,
Congrats to Deadspin.
As stated in the Complaint and recounted to Deadspin by the witness: During a June 1, 2022 conversation between Simon, the witness, and an assistant coach in Simon’s office, Simon allegedly described an incident she had observed between two Black men, and used offensive gestures and racial stereotypes in telling what the men said to each other, including using the n-word. When confronted about her behavior by the witness on June 6, Simon reportedly defended herself by saying she was “just telling a story,” and repeatedly said “I hear you” in response to the criticism of her behavior, but did not apologize.
Ive heard enough. Put her in prison
According to allegations in the Complaint, Simon “used offensive ‘racist tropes’ to describe Black athletes, including that they were ‘uncoachable’ and ‘too dumb to learn the plays’”
Uncoachable is racist now. Thanks Deadspin.
Further, the Complaint alleges, and the witness confirmed to Deadspin, that Simon spoke negatively about Black colleagues, including men’s head basketball coach Jean Bain, and used racist tropes, “such as ‘loud,’ ‘obnoxious,’ and ‘angry’”
Adjectives are racist.
I hope Julie DiCaro is happy with herself. Is this what she envisioned her career to be while wolfing down food at the mall food court for four hours one afternoon?
Horrible discovery today: The Root has gotten rid of the comment section on all their "white devil" pieces. This post is here bc its under the same Kinja umbrella as Deadspin, which also doesnt have a comment section.
I swear if Jezebel disables comments...
I liked The Root comment section bc they had quite a few people trashing the pieces bc they are all so blatantly racist against whitey.
Oh my god dude. I don’t sit online all day. Jk, I do.
When I first saw your post, I thought you were breaking the Carron story, so I wrote my reply to give you the business for pretending you didn't see my post it ln. Right after I posted I realized you were probably actually sharing the Elon remark, not the story itself. Sorry for being an a-hole. It will likely happen again.
Oh my god dude. I don’t sit online all day. Jk, I do.
When I first saw your post, I thought you were breaking the Carron story, so I wrote my reply to give you the business for pretending you didn't see my post it ln. Right after I posted I realized you were probably actually sharing the Elon remark, not the story itself. Sorry for being an a-hole. It will likely happen again.
Oh my god dude. I don’t sit online all day. Jk, I do.
When I first saw your post, I thought you were breaking the Carron story, so I wrote my reply to give you the business for pretending you didn't see my post it ln. Right after I posted I realized you were probably actually sharing the Elon remark, not the story itself. Sorry for being an a-hole. It will likely happen again.
From education to athletics, the disqualification of overqualified Black people is part of this country’s fabric
Given that people don’t like to read anything more than a headline, I will translate what that last paragraph was really about. After the fake racial awakening that occurred in 2020, a Black woman made “double history” by being the first Black person and Black woman to hold the most important position at the one university that this country has deemed as its best. And because of that, “the right” got pissed off that an overqualified Black woman — because your resume always has to be two and three times better than your white counterparts when you’re a person of color — held that much power. So, they did what they always do and tried to discredit her. And once they did that, they bullied everybody until they got what they wanted — her resignation, just months after she took the job.
Baseball doesn’t have Black ownership, and the NFL simply won’t allow it. It’s the same reason why Black head coaches face the same hurdles in Major League Baseball and football. Sherman Lewis got passed over for head coaching positions in the 90s. Eric Bieniemy is the new poster child.
This guy and this website have some chutzpah. I mean, read the room.
