Sportscaster’s Career In Peril For Comparing Black Player To King Kong

GROAN! Here we go again!

The speech police have struck again following a firestorm of Twitter outrage that erupted over the colorful commentary of a college basketball announcer who never knew what hit him.

Sportscaster Gary Dolphin who has long been the voice of the NCAA’s Iowa Hawkeyes was given a taste of the mob justice that has become commonplace after he innocently stated that a player for the University Of Maryland Terrapins had gone off and absolutely dominated the game like King Kong.

The player who Dolphin was praising is the power forward Bruno Fernando who leads the Terps in rebounds and is second in scoring and while he is indeed a monster on the court for the tournament-bound team, he also happens to be black.

The reaction was swift and brutal – total shock and awe – as Dolphin was immediately suspended for the remainder of the season and his career is quite possibly over because he has now had the scarlet letter of “R” for racism permanently burned into his forehead.

Via Hawk Central “Iowa radio announcer Gary Dolphin suspended for basketball season after ‘King Kong’ reference”:

Longtime radio voice Gary Dolphin has been suspended from broadcasting Iowa basketball games for the rest of the season.

The action comes following comments that Dolphin made during the postgame portion of Iowa’s radio broadcast of Tuesday’s home game against Maryland, in which he referred to the Terrapins’ Bruno Fernando, who is black, as “King Kong.”

The suspension, announced by Learfield Sports Properties (which owns the rights to Hawkeye broadcasts), is for basketball only. Dolphin has been Iowa’s play-by-play voice of Iowa football, as well, for the past 22 years.

The reference to King Kong, a fictional gorilla in a 1933 movie by that name, happened as Dolphin and analyst Bobby Hansen wrapped the Hawkeyes’ 66-65 loss, in which Maryland made 12 of its final 20 3-point attempts — and then Fernando (who stands 6-foot-10, 245 pounds) recorded the go-ahead tip-in with 7.8 seconds remaining.

“Twelve 3s on 22 made baskets. That’s some pretty good long-range shooting,” Dolphin said. “And then Fernando was King Kong at the end of the game.”

Hansen replied, “Yeah, he was. And they had done a really good job, Gary, for the most part rebounding.”

Then Dolphin did the absolutely WORST thing that one can ever do when targeted by the outrage mob: he apologized and groveled before their feet.

During the broadcast, I used a comparison when trying to describe a talented Maryland basketball player. In no way did I intend to offend or disparage the player. I take full responsibility for my inappropriate word choice and offer a sincere apology to him and anyone else who was offended. I wish the Iowa Hawkeye players, coaches and fans all the very best as they head into the final stretch of the season. I will use this as an opportunity to grow as a person and learn more about unconscious bias.

And who has that ever turned out well for?

Even worse?

Dolphin’s ineffective, sniveling apology referred to the junk science of “unconscious bias’ which has is the ridiculous and dangerous idea that white people are racist and don’t even know that they are – it was the same brainwashing and gaslighting that thousands of Starbucks employees were subjected to last year during the corporation’s mandatory workshops after two black loiterers had the police called on them by a manager.

But some may wonder who is really racist?

The sportscasters who have made innocent remarks with no racial intent or the cultural overlords who seem to be the ones making the comparison that black people are like monkeys and apes.

There is also a double standard that towers above the mighty cinematic ape and that is that when someone like Steve Harvey who last summer referred to the entire NBA Golden State Warriors basketball team as “gorillas” on freaking ESPN and yet suffered no similar consequences.

See! It only applies to white people just like blacks are free to call each other “niggers” and “niggas” and every other variation of the racial slur but not only are never criticized, but it is glorified by the media and entertainment industries.

If the left didn’t have double standards they would have zero standards.