ESPN.com, the online branch of the sports multimedia empire, finally realized its dream yesterday of achieving a segregated site, sending its minority columnists to the back of the website in a new tab called "Commentary" and setting up the plantation that it has long desired. 

Michael Kinsley, who until recently no one had ever heard of, made the announcement in a post on the reconfigured Page 2 on Monday, insisting that this was not "a breakup."

Kinsley said that the contributors who are moving will be joined by "thought leaders and sports stakeholders with diverse, insightful points of view."  Diversity at ESPN is now not to be found on Page 2, which is once again the sole province of white misogynist Bill Simmons and his band of merry white men.

Columnists who have been sent to the Commentary Plantation include Jemele Hill, LZ Granderson, and Scoop Jackson, the only African-American columinists on Page 2, whose work had until now largely focused on social and minority issues pertinent to athletics.  Two white columinsts were also moved.

Kinsley also offered the possibly racially-tinged charge that Commentary "will be the ears of ESPN.com, too."  Barack Obama, America's first African-American president, is well known to have big ears.

[Note for the humor impaired:  this is a satire, not of the move itself, but rather of those who find racist motivations in every little thing that anybody does.]

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