For many people around the country, Monday, September 11, 2017, brought back powerful memories. It was a day to think back and reflect on the tragic moments of 9/11 sixteen years before. It was also a day for many in the southeast to evacuate their homes to find shelter from Hurricane Irma.

Instead, too many Americans got distracted by a tweet from ESPN Host Jemele Hill, blasting President Trump as a “white supremacist.” There was so much uproar over her statements that ESPN felt the need to issue a statement to distance itself from her claim. Ms. Hill later made a clarification herself, noting that she was expressing only her own beliefs.

Of course, many supported Hill and felt that she did nothing wrong. Some blasted ESPN for not backing her up sufficienlty. Still others were outraged at Hill, and compared the slap on the wrist she got to the firing of sports commentator Curt Schilling last year for his conservative views.

The inconsistency in how ESPN handles these kinds of issues was blatantly obvious.

Hill’s Tweet Reveals a Problem That Continues to Happen

Celebrities like to shoot off their mouths. They always will. Rarely do they offer actual evidence for what they may believe. They fulminate, confident that most of their followers will share the same opinion. So they will not receive any thoughtful pushback.

Too bad Ms. Hill didn’t take time to think through what she wrote. Maybe to ask an honest friend or coworker whether it was really a good idea. Whether, in fact, it was even true. Does she really, in her heart, even believe Trump to be an actual white supremacist? On what evidence?

He has been seen showing love and respect to people that do not look like him. He has had many non-white friends over the years. Is he faking?

Trump Should Learn to Take the High Road

So Ms. Hill may need to take a step back and think before she posts such inflammatory comments. President Trump should too. After Press Secretary Sarah Sanders made her statement during a press briefing, President Trump decided to tweet his own response aimed at ESPN. We all know that our President cannot let a moment go by without making a comment when he is criticized. Nevertheless, Trump should learn to let the little things in life move on, without feeling the need to respond to them every time. He has bigger fish to fry in the Pacific Ocean.

If he knows that he is not a white supremacist, then the simple thing to do would be to make a quick statement saying that he is not one. He could further show his sincerity by asking the public to take heed to his actions which discredit the charge.

Many may not like this next idea: he could take a play out of Obama’s old playbook. Trump could invite Ms. Hill to the White House and have a conversation with her about why she feels and believes the way she does.

Now, that would be something: Trump puts the ball in Ms. Hill’s court and waits for her response!

It could actually be a win-win situation for him. It would not matter if she came and spoke with him or if she declined to meet with him. Both scenarios could easily be spun into a good thing for his image.

If she ultimately declined to meet with him, he could show that he tried to appease them. He tried to hold out the metaphorical olive branch and they did not accept. The liberal media did not want to meet with him and try to resolve issues peacefully.

Well, it is something to think about.

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