Chris Broussard: Grant Hill-Jalen Rose Flap ‘Exposes some dirty laundry in the black community’

Not surprisingly, Grant Hill’s New York Times op-ed yesterday in response to comments made in ESPN’s Fab Five documentary made for good TV discussion fodder. The PTI duo talked it over yesterday, but as it turned out, that chat paled in comparison to a segment devoted to the same subject on First Take this morning…thanks to an impassioned performance by Chris Broussard.

Asked for his opinion on Hill’s column, Broussard described it as an issue near and dear to him, which he reinforced as he delivered his monologue. He called Rose’s “Uncle Tom” comment “a bad choice of words,” deeming it “about the worst thing you can call an African-American.”

But he really got going when he described how the Rose-Hill back-and-forth “exposes some dirty laundry in the black community” – an “identity crisis” that “stems back since we’ve been brought to this country as slaves.” … [Sports Grid]

• Grant Hill-Jimmy King Story Excised By NY Times. The Grant Hill piece published Wednesday at NYTimes.com did not include the anecdote we reported on Tuesday involving Hill and King. Though after his editorial was posted, Hill Tweeted from his official Twitter account: Due to space consideration the NY Times had to edited my response. The full response will be posted on my website www.granthill.com soon. To be clear, the Hill-King anecdote was included in the original version of the editorial submitted by Hill to the New York Times, so I would assume it will soon show up on Hill’s official site. [SportsbyBrooks]

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