Jemele Hill is an ESPN employee, and she can't separate herself from that when she speaks publicly or when she uses Twitter to express her opinion, and so we do have policies against that. In this particular case, I did get involved. I felt that we had to take context into account. And context, in that case, included what was going on in America. And what I felt was going on in America — what we felt was going on in America — was that there were a lot of people out there that were outraged, particularly black people, at the fact that the promise that was given to them in the Constitution, “liberty and justice for all,” or the rights that were fought for in the Civil War, or the rights that they thought had been won in the civil rights movement were theirs. In other words, they had earned them.

And I think what they've seen in these last number of months is the opposite. And it's not only disappointing; it's — it has angered them. They've had a real need to speak out.

I've not ever experienced prejudice, certainly not racism. So, it's even hard for me to understand what they're feeling about this, what it feels like to experience racism. And so I felt that we needed to take into account what Jemele and other people ESPN were feeling in this time, and that resulted in us not taking action on the tweet that she put out.