The outcry of people corresponding to racial unrest after the killing of George Floyd made things callous for Howard Mittman. He had to leave his designation, answer the reporters, and deal with a career downfall.
Well, what’s the actual reason for such hardship? Varying sources have varying claims, here are few claims according to the news headlines. The recent headlines have shocking revelations to make; these are:
- Howard Mittman, the former Chief Executive of the Bleacher Report, has been ousted from his position because of his alleged parallelism to racial unrest.
- The representatives of Bleacher Report claim that the company has an implausible affinity for whites for higher designations.
- The authorities and parent firm blame one another for the outcry busted due to racial unrest.
Howard Mittman & The Allegations
Along with the commoners, the employees of Bleacher Report have raised their voices against the lack of black executives in the top level of the sports firm, Bleacher Report. According to 11 present and former employees, the firm is biased for whites, and supporting the same argument, they stated that the company’s sales department and top administration are devoid of black people. Their statement claims that the firm employs blacks and other races to a level, and after that level, all the top levels include solely recruiting white personnel.
One of the employees claims, “There’s a lack of diversity at the top, and they are the ones profiting the most directly off of black culture.” According to sources, after the buzz around the firm, Howard Mittman took the initiative by conducting an administrative meeting but could not lure the contrast. Do you know? Let’s find out.
Howard Mittman Vindication?
Howard Mittman is a massive name when we consider the recent recognizable efforts of entrepreneurs. However, in this case, netizens have been raged by Howard’s employee selection. To consolidate the situation, Mittman took the initiative and called a meeting to address the grievances of the contrast representatives of Bleacher Report. But it backfired on the ex-CEO again.
Howard Mittman Faced Backlash?
As, a senior designer, ‘Dylan Lathrop’ at Bleacher Report tweets, “We are approximating a black voice and often reducing that experience to aesthetics…What will B/R do to ensure that we are no longer operating as a committee of white people defining a voice that simply is not ours.”
The racism against black is eternal and shameful, although no concrete evidence is disclosed against Howard Mittman. Moreover, Howard Mittman has been trying to prove his unbiased behavior towards each section of the society.
Where, Howard Mittman l claims that he has been trying to bring the firm, Bleacher Report in equilibrium with a healthy society. He claims that the firm was founded by 4 rich kids of San Francisco and hence, it has been a long journey for him.
The higher administration also asserts that they have been taking their small steps to reach their goal. As stated, Bleacher Report had two LGBTQ people as their top executives at the time of Howard Mittman authoritativeness, where one was a woman and the other was an Asian American male.
Did You Know?
LGBTQ stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer. LGBTQ is often mentioned with a plus ‘+’ sign, where the sign indicates a huge range of sexual identifications and gender identifications, other than the mentioned ones.
Howard Mittman Allegations and The Root-Cause
If we talk about the roots of racism, it is deeper than the sea but according to people the reason behind Howard Mittman alleged racism is quite shallow. Some people believe that racism is rooted in the toxic beliefs of Howard Mittman, who believes that it’s always better to have same race administrators.
Whereas, few sources claim that it comes from the parent firm, Atlanta based, Turner’s sports. However, few insiders also postulate that the convenient pick-out of racial unrest at the time of Howard Mittman administration is nothing but a tactic to fetch the control over Bleacher Report by the former.
Also, in an interview ‘Lenny Daniels’, the President of Turner Sports, said last week that Howard Mittman was being eliminated by his designation of CEO at Bleacher Report, which makes Lenny accountable for all the reportings by the New York-based executives. Nevertheless, this statement of Lenny definitely gives fuel to the fire. Although, none of the CEOs could reach any conclusion and not even a single authoritative can be deduced to be guiltless.
Howard Mittman & The Divergent Denouement
After the killing of George Floyd, the walls of Bleacher Report got filled with estrangement. The taciturn turned into extroverts, people started raising voices against the lack of black people in the higher-grade administration. Howard Mittman tried reaching a conclusion and avoiding all blames he managed to conduct 2 all-hands meetings in mid-June, but unfortunately all that could be deduced was a ‘blame-game’.
Howard Mittman Playing The Blame Game?
Before accusing anyone of anything, there is one point to be noted. The point that accepts that, there has been racial unrest in the Bleacher Report. Now that means, whether it’s the current CEO, parent firm CEO or the Ex-CEO, Howard Mittman. Each one accepted the prevalence of racial biases.
Moreover, more disdainful is the fact that instead of taking actions each authoritative kept on blaming the contrary. Similar to others, Howard Mittman too concluded that someone else is responsible for the racial unrest. However, each of the reliables knew that a simple answer to any of the grievances regarding race, would be fresh hiring. But none of them reached the ‘solution’, can you conclude why?
Howard Mittman, All That’s Significant
Howard Mittman is known for business development, content strategy, marketing, sales and award winning media expertise. Howard Mittman served Bleacher Report for 3 years, and performed the task of chief revenue officer and chief marketing officer. Eventually he held the position of CEO in the firm.
Other than this, Howard Mittman has been also aligned with the New York based consulting firm, Record Scratch, where he is the CEO and founder of the same. Howard Mittman holds a bachelor of arts in journalism from The Ohio State University, sufficing to which he has also been awarded with the title, ‘publisher of the year’ by Adweek Media and Advertising Age.
However, despite being highly recognized the entrepreneur led himself in trouble due to the Racial allegations. Nevertheless, if the allegations are merely mythical Howard Mittman would soon regain his affability, or else we all will get something to learn.
Howard Mittman & Bleacher Report
Bleacher Report is the America based news report website for the sports section. It encircles all the buzz around sports and varying sports culture. Headquartered in San Francisco, New York, Bleacher Report was founded in 2005 by four friends namely, David Finocchio, Alexander Freund, Bryan Goldberg and Dave Nemetz. However, if we trust the PR of Howard Mittman these four are still responsible for the prevailing lack of recruitment of blacks in higher administration.
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It was 2017 when Howard Mittman was recruited from Condé Nast, where he was publisher of Wired Media Group, GQ and Golf Digest. However, after his full-fledged operation he was appointed as the CEO of the firm, but soon was expelled for the alleged racial unrest, rest is still cooking in the walls of Bleacher report.
Conclusion
“For it isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt
What will you do to solve a problem, when you already know the answer? Certainly, apply the solution. But the administrative forces of Bleacher report fail to do so. Instead, the most renowned faces with highly efficient expertise in marketing and corporate chose to be mute spectators and at the time of havoc, started inculpating the rest.
Yes, ‘Howard Mittman’, ‘the CEOs before him’ and ‘the associates after him’, none can be declared the toxic racist, but neither can be provided a clean-chit. Howard Mittman and the others accepted the presence of racial unrest in the firm, Bleacher Report but tried to discord themselves from accountability.
Appointing or promoting a few different races would be a convenient and easy approach to dilute the whole accusation but none of the accountables tried to do so. This behind it is not clear but obvious.
Racism has been there in the soils of this holy earth since time immemorial, and therefore it can never be taken lightly. Hence, Howard Mittman, might not be called out for his alleged racism but he shall sincerely be apologetic for the lacking black employees in the Bleacher report.
A news website reporting for sports, must report it with sportsmanship, respecting all cultures, races and nationalities, which can only be done by proper representations. The grievances of affected ones shall be taken sincerely. Anyways, the article does not support the ouster of Howard Mittman, but of racial unrest. Replacing individuals cannot solve the issues, instead sincere approaches do. We, the sports-fanatics, still wait for a day with zero racism, and tremendous sportsmanship.
These cases of discrimination were happening in every field and every time blacks had to suffer the most in the state.
The fact is that we have to understand that different people have different perspectives. It is more important to slow down these cases.
I just wanted to know, why every time black people have to suffer.
Racism in the workplace can’t be tolerated at all. It is something that would be overcome by changing our perspective.
Having no black people at the top of the management really shows the thinking of Howard.
People like Howard are the reason why discrimination in the workplace is still happening.
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