The original draft of this email was sent to Wall Street Journal sports and humor columnist Jason Gay and copied to several of his sports writing colleagues at the Journal, the Washington Post, ESPN and elsewhere. Many have recently deluded themselves about Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers’ chances of being named to replace the great Alex Trebek as the host of “Jeopardy!”
Dear Jason,
As popular and comfortably telegenic as straight white male Aaron Rodgers is, he doesn’t stand a chance of getting the “Jeopardy!” host gig in today’s equity milieu [“Aaron Rodgers Is Looking for Answers,” A14, May 4].
With the woke left and its Patty Hearst hostages in corporate America now openly advocating (unlawful) reverse discrimination on many fronts, Jeopardy!-owning Sony Pictures Television surely sees LeVar Burton‘s skin color, “Roots” roots and less masculine manner as advantages over rough-and-tumble football’s Mister Rodgers. Reasonably assuming that Sony wants to virtue signal and otherwise attract a younger, more gender-fluid audience, Rodgers and the millions of football and Jeopardy! fans who love him shouldn’t get their hopes up. Speculation to the contrary ignores today’s equity imperative.
Darren McKinney, Washington, D.C.