Via bleacherreport.com
“I didn’t even know Mexicans were that smart.”
Sadly, this wasn’t even the worst of the comments made on the Barstool Sports Facebook broadcast on June 9th. Casual racism comes out at the worst times, doesn’t it Emily Austen?
You may know her from Fox Sports Florida. She’s a 27-year-old anchor with blonde hair and a pleasing face. However, no amount of beauty or charm can dig her out of the amount of crap piling up around her — and it came straight from her mouth.
During the broadcast, Emily and her co-hosts made so many comments that I just have to break it down quote by quote.
The broadcast, called the Rundown, was hosted by David Portnoy and KFC of Barstool Sports, as well as another man in a blue shirt. Emily was a guest host for this episode.
Blue Shirt Host: It just proves that you can be book smart and be the dumbest person in the world. She’s an idiot.
Emily Austen: So you think it’s real? I didn’t even know Mexicans were that smart. I know that’s f*cked up, I didn’t mean it like that.
They’re referring to Mayte Lara Ibarra who revealed that she was an undocumented immigrant in her valedictorian speech. She has a 4.5 GPA and received a full scholarship to The University of Texas. The host called her an idiot because she revealed that information in her speech and on Twitter. You’d think Ibarra would know the consequences of her actions and wouldn’t put that in a speech or tweet (the tweet was deleted). Guess what: she did. Have you ever heard of DACA (thanks Obama)? It makes sure that children brought to the U.S. illegally still have the same opportunities as everyone else, so that they don’t get the blame for something they didn’t control. They still pay taxes and get a Social Security Number, so they can work and study in the U.S., but have no legal status/citizenship. DACA can be renewed every two years, and under it you won’t be deported no matter how many internet trolls snitch on you. Under this status Ibarra also cannot apply for Federal Aid, but that’s not what a scholarship is. A scholarship is a school’s decision to say, this student is so exceptional that we’re going to pay for her to go here regardless of her financial status. And Ibarra is exceptional.
So yes, I think it’s real. She’s real. And very smart, regardless of her race. So sorry that you tried to be funny here, Emily. Turns out it’s only f*cked up.
Emily: You guys know that the Chinese guy is always the smartest guy in math class.
Emily: Everybody thinks that.
Oh, I know you’re not trying to speak for everyone else right now. So, newsflash everyone, we all think that this “Chinese guy” is the smartest guy in math class. What Chinese guy? Whose math class? Surely not mine where I finished with an A as a young black girl. Walk into a math class in the United States, Emily. Everyone doesn’t think the same as you do, or else they’d all be casual racists.
Blue shirt host: Jews are a little stingy.
Emily: I used to go to school in Boca so I know about that. The way I used to talk to the Jews in Boca . . . I was a server and I just didn’t care. They would complain and b*tch about everything. I served a guy his beer and he was complaining that there was too much head, and I knew that he was a stingy a**hole and he wasn’t gonna give me a tip, so I told him ‘You are the first guy who’s ever complained to me about too much head.’ I got fired like two weeks later.
Hi there Emily, fellow South Floridian here. I’ve got a few Jewish friends from Boca and I never knew they all acted like that. I know that’s what stereotypes are for but just “Jews in Boca?” Sheesh. Also, that’s not the only job you’ll be fired from.
Emily: I’m not trying to be racist.
You don’t have to try. That’s why it’s called internalized or casual racism.
KFC: Yeah but Mexicans are very hard workers.
Everyone: YEAH.
Ugh.
Dave Portnoy: “But you never think of having a Mexican valedictorian, you think of an Asian valedictorian.”
KFC: I think illegals are good. You get cheap labor out of them.
David Portnoy: An undocumented person should not be able to get a full scholarship to college.
Now, if you’ve ever seen the Barstool Sports website or broadcasts, you know that these guys purposely say mean and offensive things. I guess we all have to appeal to an audience. This isn’t really about them, because that’s what they’re known for doing, but it is still disgusting.
Emily: I love Mexicans . . . and Mexican food.
David Portnoy: But the more you say that it sounds like ‘Oh she hates Mexicans.’
Correct!
Emily: I appreciate people who work hard for what they earn so obviously if she has that GPA then she worked hard . . .
David Portnoy: I’m just saying, you need to go through the process.
Emily: I agree.
See above. Also, are you referring to the process that you went through as an American born white male? Do you know broken down the path to citizenship is? You don’t just walk into an office and ask for citizenship and then they hand you a piece of paper. I’m sorry that you believe so strongly in an “equal opportunity” that just doesn’t really exist. The monetary cost is too much for immigrant families, not to mention the emotional cost of leaving your home country for a better life that isn’t even promised. It can take years; years of having no opportunities rather than the little you would get with a green card.
Emily’s apology on Twitter was the icing on the cake. She ensures that she didn’t mean any of it and that “something like this will never happen again.” If you don’t mean it, then why say it? Way to jeopardize a career for the sake of a few laughs.
We can thank Emily for one thing: Being a clear example of the most common kinds of racism; the kind that we may not even notice in ourselves until it’s too late.
