On this week’s “Renaissance Man” podcast, Jalen Rose talks with sportscaster and journalist Jemele Hill, who grew up around addiction and generations of pain only to be helped by …
,” is an inspiring meditation on breaking the generational curse of addiction and trauma.
“I never saw her smoke it, but … she wanted me to know what it looked like so that if anyone ever approached me with it, then I would know to say no. Now I know that might sound like a very bizarre and also counterproductive argument, but it obviously stayed in my mind,” she said. Jemele had another stabilizing element: journalism. A voracious reader and sports lover, Jemele joined her high school paper. She then applied for an apprenticeship at the Detroit Free Press.
“The athletes never gave me any trouble. I never got a sense from them that they didn’t respect me,” she said, adding that it was “fans and viewers and readers, which would be either, ‘Go back to the kitchen,’ ‘Go write for Cosmo’ or ‘Go back to Africa.’ One of those three, if not a combination.”
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