Jemele Hill Accepts Suspension But Does Not Take Back What She Tweeted

In an interview with TMZ while walking through LAX on Saturday, ESPN’s Jemele Hill spoke candidly about the suspension over her Jerry Jones tweets. “Me and ESPN are fine. We’re in a good place and I’m happy to be back at the network,” she said. When asked if she thought the suspension was fair, she replied, “So, here’s how this works: It doesn’t really matter what I think. It matters to people, but here’s the reality: ESPN acted on what they felt was right, and, you know, I don’t have any argument or quibble with that. I would tell people, absolutely, after my Donald Trump tweets, I deserved that suspension. I deserved it. Like, absolutely. I violated the policy; I deserved that suspension.” She went on to say, “The only thing I’ll ever apologize for is, I put ESPN in a bad spot. I’ll never take back what I said. I put them in a bad spot, that’s the truth of it. I regret the position I put them in. I regret, a lot of the people I work with, the position we put our show in. I’ll never take back what I said.” Hill returns to the airwaves tonight. See the video here.