TalkSPORT have officially suspended Trevor Sinclair after the former England footballer's controversial post on Thursday.
Sinclair claimed that 'black and brown' people should not mourn the death of Queen Elizabeth II because racism was allowed to 'thrive' during her reign.
Sinclair's tweet came shortly after Buckingham Palace announced the death of Her Majesty the Queen at the age of 96 on Thursday . Fans were quick to criticise the 49-year-old and called for TalkSPORT to sack the football pundit.
TalkSPORT have have released the following statement saying: 'Trevor Sinclair will not be on air while we carry out a thorough investigation into the circumstances and timing of his tweet.
'While we respect the right of Trevor Sinclair to express his opinion on his personal twitter account, TalkSPORT does not endorse the tweet.'
TalkSPORT had been trying to make contact with former Manchester City midfielder Sinclair, but struggled to get hold of him on Thursday night or Friday morning.
Sinclair's now deleted Tweet read: 'Racism was outlawed in England in the 60's & it's been allowed to thrive so why should black and brown mourn!!.' His account has also since been deleted.
The radio station have vowed to deal with the matter and distanced themselves from Sinclair's post, responding: 'We have been trying to make contact with Trevor Sinclair following opinions expressed on his Twitter account.
'TalkSPORT does not support those views expressed and is investigating the matter.'
The matter was discussed further on TalkSPORT on Friday morning with Sinclair's colleague Simon Jordan heavily critical.
'My first reaction to Trevor's tweet was of great disappointment. You have a view, and I think it is a poor view,' he told TalkSPORT.
'I think it's a misguided view, I think it is a view not steeped in any great fact, because if you're going to argue that racism was outlawed in the 60s, then you would know that society has treated it with great value.
'But to put a tweet out with that content at that time, was to my mind, deeply inappropriate, and people are allowed to have their views.
'There are people that will hold that view, and there are people that will hold the view that they didn't attach any great value to the monarchy, and they are entitled to that view.
'I find myself a very conflicted person because I abhor the view, but I know the man, so I know Trevor as a person, we've had very robust arguments and debates specifically and explicitly on this subject, and all of those arguments have ended, with an agreement to disagree.
'And so for Trevor to portray advantage point, and he will have come from a background, I am not an apologist for Trevor Sinclair. He will have come from a background in his life where he would have been faced with things like no blacks, no dogs, no Irish painted on walls, and so and so forth.
'But to put a tweet up like that at a time when a unique moment has happened in the country disappointed me greatly.'
Jordan, who responded to Sinclair's tweet on Thursday, criticising his colleague, did admit regret over publicly slamming him on social media.
Jordan had tweeted: 'Trev. I'm really not sure that is an appropriate thought, let alone tweet. The country has lost a very significant person and respect and value should be the over riding sentiments not division!'
He explained: 'And there will be a lot of people, there will be a cancel culture now, and I've seen it. I've seen it piling in on my social, I responded to Trevor with a tweet.
'I kind of regretted it to some extent because I felt that I should have perhaps text him direct rather than respond to a tweet because and I didn't quote tweet it because it's not then about me replying to Trevor.
'It was a reaction for me to say, oh, no Trevor this is not an appropriate thought. It's not right for the start.
'And it's certainly not for the timing of it if you want to have this view, there will be a time for people to have different views about the monarchy and about our Queen. This was never the time.
'And of course, now what we've got on our hands is a broadcaster and as people that know Trevor, is a culture of people saying he's got to be fired.
'He's got to be cancelled. He's got to be gotten rid of and that's for other people to make those decisions. But we also live in a society where people are allowed to have alternative views. And if you start cancelling people, be careful what you cancel.
'I know I haven't spoken to him, and I'm sure that he'll be in a state of great distress because he'll look at the reality of what he's put out there and think I may hold those views, but there's no parallel universe where that was the right time to say it.
'Everyone has to suffer the consequences of what they do and say and Trevor will suffer the consequences for this.
'But I'm telling you as one man to another and as a person that's talking to lots of people I know this fellow and you know this fellow Jim, this man is not a racist.
'He's not steeped in racism. He has views, he has experiences and some of them I don't agree with. But for the mob and the lynch mob now will be after Trevor, I feel sad for that.
'But I guess in life, we all reap the whirlwind and we have the consequences of the actions and the dees and the words that we say.'
Jordan's thoughts were echoed by presenter Jim White, who confirmed that talkSPORT were dealing with Sinclair's now-deleted tweet.
White said: 'I would echo every one of the words you have just used, and I would also emphasize this morning to everyone listening that Trevor's tweet is not endorsed by talkSPORT.
'We know that talkSPORT is investigating the matter and that matter will be dealt with.'