{"id":18694,"date":"2012-12-17T16:09:06","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T21:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18694"},"modified":"2012-12-17T16:09:17","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T21:09:17","slug":"espn-suspends-commentator-for-calling-robert-griffin-iii-a-cornball-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18694","title":{"rendered":"ESPN Suspends Commentator For Calling Robert Griffin, III  A \u2018Cornball Brother\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What was <strong>Rob Parker<\/strong> thinking? The sports columnist made headlines for essentially questioning the Blackness of Washington Redskins quarterback <strong>Robert Griffin, III<\/strong> because of his white fianc\u00e9e,<strong> Rebecca Liddicoat<\/strong>,\u00a0while on ESPN\u2019s\u00a0<em>First Take<\/em>, among other reasons. The network announced that is has suspended <strong>Parker<\/strong> for his comments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Parker<\/strong> has been suspended indefinitely by the network, which will be conducting a full review controversial, race baiting debate. \u201cI want to find out about him,\u201d said<strong> Parker<\/strong> on First Take. \u201cI don\u2019t know, because I keep hearing these things. We all know he has a white fianc\u00e9e. There was all this talk about he\u2019s a Republican, which, there\u2019s no information [about that] at all. I\u2019m just trying to dig deeper as to why he has an issue. Because we did find out with <strong>Tiger Woods<\/strong>;\u00a0<strong>Tiger Woods<\/strong> was like I\u2019ve got Black skin but don\u2019t call me Black. So people got to wondering about <strong>Tiger Woods <\/strong>early on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What was Rob Parker thinking? The sports columnist made headlines for essentially questioning the Blackness of Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin, III because of his white fianc\u00e9e, Rebecca Liddicoat,\u00a0while on ESPN\u2019s\u00a0First Take, among other reasons. The network announced that is has suspended Parker for his comments. Parker has been suspended indefinitely by the network, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}