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[PJMedia] Project Veritas released a video exposing the workplace of ESPN as being toxic and openly laden with racism. Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe connected with an ESPN studio operator named Trevor Adams, who sought to blow the whistle on the "discrimination" and "racism " he witnessed at ESPN as an employee.

Adams says he not only witnessed such behavior but experienced it personally. Once through a headset, a director called Adams "just another white Trump supporter" and said that "if there were more women in this building things would get done a lot better and quicker."

Other ESPN employees were recorded detailing experiences similar to that of Adams.

Alyssa Lang, an on-air talent for ESPN, who by appearance is a white female, characterized conversations held around her and comments made directly to her as "Just blatantly racist sh*t." In one instance, colleagues of Lang were verbally disgruntled about the fact that Lang and her two co-hosts were each white, the suggestion being that if a show is hosted exclusively by white people, it is somehow unfit to exist.

Doreen Murray, a graphics specialist, described ESPN as being an environment where accusations of racism are thrown around in retaliation for even the mildest bit of conflict. "This company has it set up where you can’t say anything because immediately they turn it around and scream racism."

This toxic and racialized work environment was felt by both white and black employees at ESPN.

And all this comes just months after ESPN’s racial fiasco involving Maria Taylor and Rachel Nichols, where Nichols was caught on tape describing how she felt pushed out of an on-air role that was contractually assigned to her, so that the darker-skinned Maria Taylor could ascend to the position, theoretically improving ESPN’s visual diversity posture.

Here is the entire exposé as posted on the Project Veritas YouTube channel.