By Amaury Pi Gonzalez

ESPN removed an announcer from its broadcast of the University of Virginia first football game next month because he has the same name as a Confederate General Robert Lee who is memorialized in statues that are being taken down across the country. All because of what happened recently in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Robert Lee is a part time employee of ESPN who calls a dozen or so of football and basketball games a year.

The network made the announcement Tuesday. The game Mr Lee was going to call was on September 2, in Charlottesville,Virginia.

Removing a statue is one thing, but removing an employee because of his or her name is as un-American as anything I have ever heard.

An old friend of mine told me recently. “Amaury, we are living in interesting times”. He is 100X100 correct.

I am not an attorney, but how can you fire or prevent somebody for doing the job you hire his/her became he/her has the same name as somebody that is controversial? I would pay to hear an attorney defending ESPN for their action.

Locura translation Craziness.