A’s broadcaster Glen Kuiper fired after using racial slur on air
May 22, 2023
A’s broadcaster Glen Kuiper fired after using racial slur on air
23 comments
Curious to hear what the internal investigation found if that truly is why they decided to go ahead with firing him. He screwed up but it seemed accidental.
Ridiculous. Unless the “internal review” uncovered something major, there’s no reason to fire someone over a slip of the tongue
You know everytime the “negro league” comes up its in the back of the announcers head now.
Don’t say doing your wife don’t say doing your wife…
On the one hand we’ve all had a slip where our mouth said something we didn’t intend.
On the other, my mouth has never slipped up and said n****r. đ¤ˇ
Well the A’s got something right.
Welp, at least he doesnât have to announce Aâs games anymore.
As he should have fucking been. There is no reason for a professional broadcaster to drop the n-word, your one job is to be eloquent. If it’s so easy for you to mispronounce “negro” (which is utter bullshit) then maybe you are in the wrong career. MLB claims to want to reach out to Black fans but it’s apparent that fans of the league don’t want us, given all the baseball fans I’ve seen saying Kuiper shouldn’t be punished. Sidenote….lots of people saying “if Bob Kendrick says don’t fire him, well then all Black people should be forgiving”….Bob was specifically chosen to do the Negro League stuff for MLB The Show due to his ability to sanitize the real horrible shit done to Black players at the time for white fans, he’s not going to say anything that would potentially upset the league.
New rule, don’t talk about the Negro Leagues a nymore.
20 years from now, everyone will forget it existed.
Dallas Braden should face something since all he did was nod while he said it.
Oh come the fuck on
Bothers me extra because he was really energetic and passionate while talking about the negro league and his tongue slipped
I knew without clicking in that there would be a bunch of posts of people defending him revealing himself.
W
Players intentionally beat their wives, cheat and win championships – I sleep
Announcer accidentally uses a slur, apologies – REAL SHIT
Iâm guessing he wouldnât follow the team to Las Vegas anyway right?
Iâm still curious about Arthur Bryantâs BBQ. I need answers
This is ridiculous. He clearly fumbled over his words and didnât actually mean to say what he said.
I canât believe we now live in a society where all the 15 year old perpetually-outraged, terminally-online brainlets can destroy peopleâs careers by screeching things like, âEek, an obviously-accidental mispronunciation of the phrase âNegro League Museumâ in a way that unfortunately sounded like a slur is definitive proof that this dude hurls racial slurs constantly in his free time!â
Itâs because he didnât apologize to the folks who sign his paychecks at Fox Sports
I am a self-described communist (like actual – not a liberal cosplaying as one), have a career in defending people of color in the criminal justice system of a major US city, and hold two social science degrees where I focused on systemic racial and economic inequality and its intersection with the penal system. I make shit pay because Iâm dedicated to my labor being used in any way possible to defend poor black and brown people. Iâm a white guy, also. However, I would venture to say that I interact with more people of color in a personal and professional setting than a lot of people in this comment section. Those interactions are also genuine, passionate, and at times extremely sad due to the work I do.
Itâs lame as fuck the way people approach situations like these and all it does is further trivialize and obfuscate true, brutal systemic racism in favor of easy âgotchaâ performative shit like this. Seeing a bunch of undoubtedly white liberal children in here talk about this like itâs some great accomplishment for equality or that it 100% indicates that this dude has a klan robe in his closet is so fucking cringe, man. We got some baby-brained slacktivist in here acting like itâs preposterous to think that a man who is paid to have his voice aired live for 162 2-3 hour games a year would make a slip up like this lol. Is it the worst word to say on accident? Obviously. However, donât tell me that you donât read âNegro Leagueâ and at least in your brain briefly associate it with that word or think to yourself, if even for a nanosecond, âgod, donât say the other one!â. Seriously, get a life. Get involved in this shit in some tangible level, please, for all our sake. Get offline and actually do something helpful for once.
The dude seemed to have done what he needed to do in response to this and even had the president of the Negro League say he figured he wasnât a terrible human. But, no, get your little dopamine rush from feeling morally superior because youâve been so effectively neutered by modern political theater that you actually think this is accomplishing something.
Unless, of course, the internal investigation found a Klan robe in this guyâs closet lol.
EDIT: Go Cubs.
He obviously misspoke so this is pretty fucked up. 2023 life..
wheres the clip
I feel bad for the guy. It was an honest mistake when saying trying to say a word very similar to the slur. Unless he goes around saying that word or similar in his everyday life, he didn’t deserve to be fired
Honestly, I dont like non-black people saying the actual league name anyways. Im white and it just feels wrong. Not saying I get to decide who says what or not, just that it bugs me.
23 comments
Curious to hear what the internal investigation found if that truly is why they decided to go ahead with firing him. He screwed up but it seemed accidental.
Ridiculous. Unless the “internal review” uncovered something major, there’s no reason to fire someone over a slip of the tongue
You know everytime the “negro league” comes up its in the back of the announcers head now.
Don’t say doing your wife don’t say doing your wife…
https://youtu.be/w4Zg1jX75m0
On the one hand we’ve all had a slip where our mouth said something we didn’t intend.
On the other, my mouth has never slipped up and said n****r. đ¤ˇ
Well the A’s got something right.
Welp, at least he doesnât have to announce Aâs games anymore.
As he should have fucking been. There is no reason for a professional broadcaster to drop the n-word, your one job is to be eloquent. If it’s so easy for you to mispronounce “negro” (which is utter bullshit) then maybe you are in the wrong career. MLB claims to want to reach out to Black fans but it’s apparent that fans of the league don’t want us, given all the baseball fans I’ve seen saying Kuiper shouldn’t be punished.
Sidenote….lots of people saying “if Bob Kendrick says don’t fire him, well then all Black people should be forgiving”….Bob was specifically chosen to do the Negro League stuff for MLB The Show due to his ability to sanitize the real horrible shit done to Black players at the time for white fans, he’s not going to say anything that would potentially upset the league.
New rule, don’t talk about the Negro Leagues a nymore.
20 years from now, everyone will forget it existed.
Dallas Braden should face something since all he did was nod while he said it.
Oh come the fuck on
Bothers me extra because he was really energetic and passionate while talking about the negro league and his tongue slipped
I knew without clicking in that there would be a bunch of posts of people defending him revealing himself.
W
Players intentionally beat their wives, cheat and win championships – I sleep
Announcer accidentally uses a slur, apologies – REAL SHIT
Iâm guessing he wouldnât follow the team to Las Vegas anyway right?
Iâm still curious about Arthur Bryantâs BBQ. I need answers
This is ridiculous. He clearly fumbled over his words and didnât actually mean to say what he said.
I canât believe we now live in a society where all the 15 year old perpetually-outraged, terminally-online brainlets can destroy peopleâs careers by screeching things like, âEek, an obviously-accidental mispronunciation of the phrase âNegro League Museumâ in a way that unfortunately sounded like a slur is definitive proof that this dude hurls racial slurs constantly in his free time!â
Itâs because he didnât apologize to the folks who sign his paychecks at Fox Sports
I am a self-described communist (like actual – not a liberal cosplaying as one), have a career in defending people of color in the criminal justice system of a major US city, and hold two social science degrees where I focused on systemic racial and economic inequality and its intersection with the penal system. I make shit pay because Iâm dedicated to my labor being used in any way possible to defend poor black and brown people. Iâm a white guy, also. However, I would venture to say that I interact with more people of color in a personal and professional setting than a lot of people in this comment section. Those interactions are also genuine, passionate, and at times extremely sad due to the work I do.
Itâs lame as fuck the way people approach situations like these and all it does is further trivialize and obfuscate true, brutal systemic racism in favor of easy âgotchaâ performative shit like this. Seeing a bunch of undoubtedly white liberal children in here talk about this like itâs some great accomplishment for equality or that it 100% indicates that this dude has a klan robe in his closet is so fucking cringe, man. We got some baby-brained slacktivist in here acting like itâs preposterous to think that a man who is paid to have his voice aired live for 162 2-3 hour games a year would make a slip up like this lol. Is it the worst word to say on accident? Obviously. However, donât tell me that you donât read âNegro Leagueâ and at least in your brain briefly associate it with that word or think to yourself, if even for a nanosecond, âgod, donât say the other one!â. Seriously, get a life. Get involved in this shit in some tangible level, please, for all our sake. Get offline and actually do something helpful for once.
The dude seemed to have done what he needed to do in response to this and even had the president of the Negro League say he figured he wasnât a terrible human. But, no, get your little dopamine rush from feeling morally superior because youâve been so effectively neutered by modern political theater that you actually think this is accomplishing something.
Unless, of course, the internal investigation found a Klan robe in this guyâs closet lol.
EDIT: Go Cubs.
He obviously misspoke so this is pretty fucked up. 2023 life..
wheres the clip
I feel bad for the guy. It was an honest mistake when saying trying to say a word very similar to the slur. Unless he goes around saying that word or similar in his everyday life, he didn’t deserve to be fired
Honestly, I dont like non-black people saying the actual league name anyways. Im white and it just feels wrong. Not saying I get to decide who says what or not, just that it bugs me.