charges of being "Uncle Toms", arguing that the label is inappropriate. Controversy On February 5, 2012, Roland Martin's Twitter account responded to an underwear advertisement featuring the association football player David Beckham, stating "If a dude at your Super Bowl party is hyped about David Beckham's H&M underwear ad, smack the ish out of him!" GLAAD (the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) responded on its website: “Martin’s tweets today advocating violence against gay people weren’t an accident — they are a part of a larger pattern for Martin. Anti-gay violence in America is a serious problem". In response to the tweets, it was reported that Roland Martin had been suspended by CNN for the controversial remarks. His suspension was lifted on March 14, 2012. In 2016, Martin was revealed to have leaked CNN town hall questions to former DNC Chair Donna Brazile, who then leaked them to Hillary Clinton's camp when he was acting as guest-moderator. According to Politico, in an email the day before the March town hall to senior Clinton staffers, then DNC Chair Donna Brazile wrote: “From time to time I get the questions in advance” and included the text of a question about the death penalty. An email later obtained by Politico showed that the text of the question Brazile sent to the Clinton campaign was identical to a proposed question Martin had offered CNN. List of broadcasts Washington Watch with Roland Martin (2009-2013) News One Now (2013-2017) The Roland Martin Show (2016, radio) Roland Martin Unfiltered (2018–present) Articles "What would Jesus really do?" "The new reality for Bush and the Democrats" "Obama Birth Issue is Nutty" "Roland Martin is on Watch" References External links Roland Martin Features on Ascots at Creators Syndicate Podcasts of Martin's recent articles TV ONE website for Washington Watch with Roland Martin CNN suspends Roland Martin for Super Bowl tweets 1968 births Living people African-American writers African-American journalists African-American television personalities American Protestants American male non-fiction writers People from Houston Radio personalities from Chicago Texas A&M University alumni Louisiana Baptist University alumni American people of Haitian descent Journalists from Texas People from Leesburg, Virginia CNN people 21st-century African-American people 20th-century African-American people