A sports talk radio host on WEEI in Boston is being blasted online after he appeared to use a racial slur about ESPN personality Mina Kimes.
WEEI Boston sports radio producer Chris Curtis referred to ESPN analyst Mina Kimes as one of his favorite “nips.” Nip is an ethnic slur against Japanese people, referring to a shortened version of Nippon, which is the Japanese name for the country.
ESPN had to release a statement on the matter.
“There’s no place for these type of hateful comments, which were uncalled for and extremely offensive,” the network wrote, via Front Office Sports.
Kimes’ ESPN colleague, Sarah Spain, was so pissed off about the slur that she took to Twitter and ripped Curtis and WEEI Boston.
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“FYI – Nip is an ethnic slur against people of Japanese descent What are we doing here, @WEEI? p.s. Mina isn’t even Japanese, you jackass,” she wrote on Twitter.
What made matter even worse is that Boston Globe sports media columnist Chad Finn gave an excuse that the reason for the use of the slur was actually meant to refer to Mila Kunis, not Kimes.
“When you have to play the ‘I’m sexist’ card to get out of your ‘I’m racist’ issue, you’re really in the shit,” Spain added.
Kimes responded to Finn’s tweet with a meme from “The Simpsons” of Bart’s eyes glazed over. She even changed her profile picture to Kunis.
