ESPN's Jacobson Suspended

Not that we'll ever get to actually see it, but apparently ESPN's Dana Jacobson got a little drunk at ESPN's recent "Mike & Mike" roast. The reports are coming out that Dana got up in front of the microphone with a bottle of vodka in hand and said:

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"f... Notre dame"
"f....touchdown Jesus"
and - the step-aside-because-lightning-is-about-to-strike... "f.... Jesus."
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I don't know Dana Jacobson personally, but I have a feeling that her speech may not have come out exactly the way she intended. Vodka has a funny way of making people say and do stupid things. Dana is a University of Michigan graduate and I think it is quite obvious that she was just trying to get under Mike Golic's skin with her speech. Mike Golic is a proud graduate of the University of Notre Dame.

In case you missed it, ESPN has decided to suspend Dana for one week as a result of her drunken mistake. That's right, I said one week!
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Honestly, I'm not that upset about what Dana said. In fact, I'll even admit that I kind of enjoy listening to her when she does guest appearances on ESPN Radio from time to time. But, I do think that if the reports about what she said are true she should have had her employment terminated instead only getting a one week suspension. Its not that I don't like Dana or that I think the one week suspension isn't sufficient. What upsets me is that there appears to be a double standard in this country. What do you think would happen to Colin Cowherd if he got drunk at an ESPN sanctioned event, then got behind a microphone and started making fun of a Muslim athlete and then threw in a "F**k Muhammed" joke for good measure? Yeah, I think Colin would have gotten more than a one week suspension.
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We will never defeat racism and/or bigotry in this country until we actually start treating everyone equally. Equal punishment for equal crimes would be a good place to start. A black man that commits a robbery will get twice the jail sentence that a white man would get for committing the same crime. That is just not right! Its the same crime and it deserves the same punishment.

A white man that makes a racially insensitive remark gets fired from his job, while a black man that makes a racially insensitive remark gets a pat on the back and an apology from the white community. Although its not as bad as the "double jail sentence," it is still not right. A racially insensitive remark is still a racially insensitive remark no matter who makes it.

In the Dana Jacobson situation, it was a religiously insensitive remark. She said it, and she should have been fired.
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I know Dana Jacobson isn't a black man and what she said wasn't about race, but I'm pretty sure you get my point. The recent poor choice of words by Kelly Tilghman about Tiger Woods is yet another example of what I'm talking about. I'm sure Kelly didn't intend for her "lynching" comment to come out quite the way it did, but she still said it and she can't take it back. And, what she said is about as racially insensitive as you can get. Kelly (who is a female like Dana Jacobson) only got suspended for two weeks for her racially insensitive remark.

Last week, Golfweek magazine decided to follow-up on Tilghman's poor choice of words by putting a noose on the cover of its January 19th edition. Dave Seanor, who is the editor responsible for the cover of the magazine, got fired over the incident. Dave, of course, is a white male. Don't get me wrong, I think Dave deserved to get fired. But, I also think Kelly Tilghman should have been fired as well.

Why didn't Dana Jacobson or Kelly Tilghman get fired for what they said? Double standards, that's why.