(Joshua Paladino, Headline USA) With new undercover testimony, Project Veritas exposed a work environment at ESPN that anchor Alyssa Lang called “blatantly racist.”
“I know the comments that have been made to me at work and the conversations that have been had in front of me at work, like, I mean just blatantly racist s***,” Lang, a white host who reports on the SEC Network, based in Charlotte, NC.
“Just blatantly, like, complaining to me that we have three white hosts, and I’m like, ‘What do you want me—do you want me to leave?'” she said, according to Project Veritas.
ESPN Studio Operator Trevor Adams performed the undercover journalism and sent it Project Veritas.
Adams said he circulated an email throughout ESPN that laid out his concerns—but rather than addressing his concerns, the company called him a “threat” and sent law enforcement officers to his home.
Tarya Banks, ESPN’s lead audio communications specialist, described the difference in the company’s public image and its workplace.
“The BLM movement, the diversity, the racial and social justice platforms that ESPN has propped up, pushed forward, which, every right to do that, but yet when you come here to work everyday, that’s not how it is,” she said.
Nick Calabrese, another lead audio communications specialist, outlined the company’s tactics.
“Going around and accusing people of being racist is bad. It’s very bad,” he said. “If you have to put a color in front of it, you’re being racist.”
Eric Ketchum, an ESPN media engineer, said he faces backlash for his political views.
“Like I’m crazy to be Republican or Trump supporter,” he said. “And she does treat me differently. I can tell.”
Banks said she supported Adams’ decision to confront ESPN:
“From my experience, especially with the discrimination and the racism, I think he’s [Trevor Adams] just trying to shine light on a bigger situation, and I said, ‘I’ll back him.’ I wanted to do what he did, but I know if I would have done that, I would have been fired.’”
