Barstool Sports Employees of Color Go to Extremes to Get Founder Dave Portnoy’s Half-Assed Apology for Racism
In a podcast episode published Wednesday, seven Barstool Sports employees of color spent 80 minutes talking around the fact that their boss Dave Portnoy, whose racist videos had gained attention this past weekend, had not apologized publicly or in private to them.
Objectively, the discussion was pathetic.
Former NFL player Willie Colon and Brandon Newman had five of their co-workers on The 2Biggs Podcast for a discussion about Portnoy’s comments; the episode was titled with the acronym for “Now It’s Gonna Get Extremely Real.” (Not every participant signed off on that title.) Most of the conversation featured the group trying their hardest to not call their boss racist, but there were two damning details revealed. Colon said this week he talked one-on-one with Portnoy about a now-viral 2016 clip in which the Barstool boss compared NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick to a terrorist because of his skin color and appearance.
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