Jemele Hill was suspended for being the only one brave enough to call the Left out on hypocrisy

Jemele Hill's willingness to stand up for what's right has jeopardized her career once again.

One month after she called Donald Trump a white supremacist on television, ESPN is suspending the SportsCenter anchor for a series of tweets about Dallas Cowboys' owner (and Trump supporter) Jerry Jones — and football fans in general.

After Jones announced that any Cowboys player who didn't stand for the National Anthem wouldn't be allowed to play, Hill rightly pointed out that fans who both opposed forcing players to stand but still watched every game were hypocrites. She tweeted:

It's not even like she's asserting an opinion here. She's just highlighting the huge problem with (typically "progressive") fans who approve of the right to protest but still support the teams financially.

If you hate everything Jerry Jones stands for, why are you watching every game and lining his pockets with lucrative sports commercial money?

And further more, why are you putting the burden of morality on the players, many of whom are people of color? After all, it's not like there are zero consequences for protest — Colin Kaepernick still doesn't have a job.

But Hill and Kaepernick are cut from the same cloth. Both are Black people who had the nerve to put their entire career on the line to call attention to a problem, and both are being roundly punished for it. They're shining spotlights on huge issues in sports and society as a whole and may never recover from it.

ESPN said this of Hill's suspension:

“She previously acknowledged letting her colleagues and company down with an impulsive tweet. In the aftermath, all employees were reminded of how individual tweets may reflect negatively on ESPN and that such actions would have consequences. Hence this decision.”

She didn't tweet anything that would "reflect" negatively on ESPN — she tweeted something that, if everyone woke the fuck up and listened to her, would hurt their bottom line. And that, over everything else is what the network cares about.

Once again, a person of color is forced to carry responsibility for an entire failed system. And what Hill did was especially important because she wasn't just going after conservatives who don't want players "disrespecting" the flag — she blew the whistle on so-called progressives on the Left who were willing to sit back and let it all happen.

They're the same people who tweeted #NeverTrump but didn't show up to vote. The same people who shake their head in horror at the murders of Eric Garner or Philando Castile but can't be bothered to get up off their asses for a Black Lives Matter rally, or call their representatives for gun reform, or donate to women's healthcare causes. Police brutality is killing the Black community. Football players take a knee, they're punished for it.

And you're going to keep watching the fucking game?

That's what Jemele Hill was fired for, having the audacity to point out the blinding hypocrisy of the Left and underscoring that it's, after everything, about the money.

If you care at all about the fact that a major media conglomerate just slapped a muzzle over the most sensible voice in sports, you won't tune in tonight or on Sunday. Or any Sunday until this gets fixed.

Listen to Jemele and hit 'em where it hurts.