Jemele Hill opens up about leaving ESPN's 'conservative culture'

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Jemele Hill is getting candid about the "conservative culture" at ESPN that led to her contentious departure following an infamous tweet about ex-President Donald Trump. 

"I wasn’t a good fit for the 'SportsCenter' culture. Definitely not a good fit for the management that was overseeing 'SportsCenter' at the time. And I got tired. I got really tired of fighting everyday to be myself," Hill said Thursday on Kenny Mayne's podcast, "Hey Mayne."

"By far 'SportsCenter' was the most high-profile job I’ve had at ESPN," Hill recalled. "It was the best-paying job I had at ESPN. But it’s also the worst job I had at ESPN."

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"It’s a conservative culture at ESPN and so this idea that ESPN is being run by flower children is just a lie," Hill said. "That’s not how it is. It’s the opposite, if anything. As you know all too well."

She continued: “Once (critics) started seeing my face, Michael’s face become more prominent… then suddenly ESPN is too liberal because what they’re really trying to say is 'Oh, y’all must be liberal-leaning because you got all these women and all these Black people who are suddenly on my TV everyday. So that means that this company has certainly given in to a brigade of liberalism.'"

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