White folks, don't bother asking for a 1 on 1 interview
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I love stuff like this. It might shock us back to reality.
I am by no means a white supremacist but if you back me up to a wall I will be joining my tribe for the fight.
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@lufins-dad said in White folks, don't bother asking for a 1 on 1 interview:
Sue the ever-loving crap out of her.
Considering how things work these days, who would have standing to sue? A reporter who identifies as "white?"
What about people like Rachel Dolezal?
@george-k said in White folks, don't bother asking for a 1 on 1 interview:
who would have standing to sue?
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Sue the ever-loving crap out of her. It is illegal for her to discriminate on the basis of race.
@lufins-dad said in White folks, don't bother asking for a 1 on 1 interview:
Sue the ever-loving crap out of her. It is illegal for her to discriminate on the basis of race.
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Lightfoot says she would 'absolutely' exclude white journalists again
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she would "absolutely" grant interviews only to journalists of color again after she drew waves of backlash earlier in the year when she announced the policy.
"I would absolutely do it again. I’m unapologetic about it because it spurred a very important conversation, a conversation that needed to happen, that should have happened a long time ago," the Democrat said on a segment of the New York Times's podcast Sway, released on Monday.
"Here is the bottom line for me: To state the obvious, I’m a black woman mayor," she said. "I’m the mayor of the third-largest city in the country. Obviously, I have a platform, and it’s important to me to advocate on things that I believe are important. Going back to why I ran — to disrupt the status quo. The media is critically important to our democracy. … The media is in a time of incredible upheaval and disruption, but our City Hall press corps looks like it’s 1950 or 1970."
When Lightfoot was pressed on the subject and reminded of criticism from those who suggested politicians don't get to choose their coverage, she remained defiant and said the move was meant to resist "systemic racism."
"No, it’s not about me choosing who covers me, right? I gave exclusive interviews," the mayor said. "And we do get to choose who we talk to in exclusives. I gave exclusive interviews with journalists of color, right? One 24-hour period and it was like people’s heads exploded. I had journalists saying, ‘Does the mayor think I’m racist?’ No, it’s not about individuals. It’s about systemic racism."
"I am a Latino reporter [at the Chicago Tribune] whose interview request was granted for today," reporter Gregory Pratt tweeted. "However, I asked the mayor’s office to lift its condition on others and when they said no, we respectfully canceled. Politicians don’t get to choose who covers them."
Similarly, NBC 5 political reporter Mary Ann Ahern told the Washington Examiner, "I expressed my outrage. Nothing has changed."
