PROVO, Utah- Black Entertainment Broadcasting Corp. fired the head of its broadcast group after documenting his repeated comments criticizing whites, including: "We've got to quit hiring all these white people."
Erin Robinson had urged colleagues not to hire white people and complained that an Fresno TV station was "too white," the memo said. He also allegedly said: "You shouldn't hire old white guys. These guys don't listen, they have attitudes, and you can't control them."
At BEB, Robinson, 52, oversaw 18 television stations and half of the company's 2,600 employees. He was credited with turning around the broadcast group, which reaches 10 percent of TV households in the country, and earned almost $2 million last year.
"This was the true definition of a 'power bigot' - he controlled 18 television stations," said Beatrice Johnson, vice president of the group and an anchor at WTBR in Alabama. "Who knows how much damage he's done to the careers of unsuspecting white journalists?"
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