Failed ESPN commentator Jemele Hill said she took the defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris to President-elect Donald Trump “quite personally” because she can supposedly identify with Harris as another “overqualified black woman” who didn’t make the grade because of overt racism.
Hill provided a brief monologue on her podcast to describe her abject disappointment over Harris losing the presidential prize.
"I take the reelection of Donald Trump quite personally because of the person themselves, but also as a black woman. And that is because I think for a lot of black women, we can relate to Kamala Harris just in the sense of, some of us have been in that position before where we felt qualified, if not overqualified in many respects."
"And I don't think it's by any accident that both of Trump's presidential victories have been against women," Hill said, referring to failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton who lost to Trump in 2016.
"I hate to use the word ‘ready,’ but at what point will America be ready for a woman to be in that role? I think it's a question we have to ask ourselves, is this like, what is it going to take? Because I see all this post-election autopsy's trying to box around what I think was pretty obvious about how racism and misogyny were driving a lot of the coverage, the opinions, and even how the 'electoriate' [sic] saw Kamala Harris."
In commenting on Hill’s painful comparison, Breitbart noted that whether Republican voters liked Harris or agreed with her policies or not, at least she had traveled a logical road to the presidency: from California attorney general, to federal senator, to vice president. Hill on the other hand does not have as much success on her resume.
Outkick editorialized on Hill’s presumptuousness, saying: “Also, Jemele probably shouldn't deem herself an ‘overqualified black woman.’ For years, guilty white executives – at ESPN, CNN, The Atlantic, and TNT – have paid her millions of dollars for jobs that she not only didn't earn but at which she failed.”
“The dirty little secret about Jemele Hill is that – whether she's on television, podcasting, or writing books – her audience is not large enough to justify her large salary. Hence, Charles Barkely acknowledging last month that she ‘gets fired a lot.’”
