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FINALLY!!

Remember this guy who said RGIII was corny? Yeah… Rob Parker, him. Well, today ESPN decided to let this genius go! How smart was it to make comments like he did DURING HIS CONTRACT YEAR?

ESPN States: 

ESPN will not renew its contract with commentator Rob Parker, who was suspended last month following remarks he made on “First Take” in which he questioned Washington Football Team quarterback Robert Griffin III’s “blackness.”

“Rob Parker’s contract expired at year’s end. Evaluating our needs and his work, including his recent RG III comments, we decided not to renew his deal,” an ESPN spokesperson said in a statement Tuesday.

During a Dec. 13 episode of “First Take” on ESPN2, Parker was discussing Griffin’s answer to a question about Griffin’s role as an African-American quarterback. In questioning Griffin’s “blackness,” Parker cited that Griffin has a white fiancée and is rumored to be Republican.

Among his comments, Parker, who is black, said: “Is he a brother or a cornball brother?”

Parker later issued an apology on his Twitter account. A day later, on Dec. 20, ESPN announced he was suspended for 30 days.

I’m happy man… This dude  crossed the line making those racial comments. I kind of is a microcosm to how some think, measuring “cool-ness” in means of “black-ness” but I digress.

Hit me on Twitter…. I feel a rant coming on soon!

[@GiovanniZeus]