Jemele Hill

He's had some opinions of Colin Kaepernick that I thought were,

thoughtless and a little inaccurate.

And I made that publicly known.

It was about addressing his opinion.

He had his thing or so to say about me.

He suggested that next time I call him or that I do call him if I have a critique, I did call him after we had that exchange on social media.

And he's a busy man.

He didn't answer.

I texted him, never heard back from him.

It's fine.

I'm not, I don't expect, Stephen A. doesn't owe me an answer, but since he brought up the fact that I should call him, I actually did it and he didn't respond.

I think a lot of people think that I have some negative opinion of Stephen A. I don't.

I think he's done remarkable.

He's had a remarkable professional career.

And I think him as a black man being the face of ESPN, that is really encouraging for younger black journalists who are aspiring to be in these positions of authority and ownership.

And he's been able to give them an example of what's possible.

And he's opened up a lot of doors for people.

But the part that sometimes made me cringe about him is that especially not only sensing the uneven critiques that we talked about from a racial standpoint,

But also, it just felt like sometimes when he's discussing women, especially Black women, he gets very... It's a lot of cap going on in terms of how he built our careers.

I've heard him refer to building my career before, and I just think that was...