Uncategorized

Source: Dennis Van Tine/Future Image/WENN.com / WENN

California congresswoman Maxine Waters gathered the call of the people and negotiated a meeting with CBS executives over the outrage that ensued after it was revealed that not a single Black member of the network’s 2020 presidential reporting team existed.

On Monday Black Twitter lit up after a radio personality ignorantly argued that the lack of Black journalists at CBS was due to the fact that Black culture had no interest in journalism. As we know the upcoming election will be more crucial than ever in addressing the needs of Black America.

Rep. Waters was among the many people with large platforms who took the network to task in the matter earlier in the week, setting her foot into the firestorm over the controversy.

“CBS, the efforts on your website about your support for diversity fly in the face of your display of all of the reporters you’ve selected for the 2020 campaign. Not one Black. What’s up with this? An explanation is needed,” she wrote.

On Wednesday, Waters shared that she met with the execs over the glaring concerns.

After he was promptly told to take a seat, the discussions continued, prompting a robust conversation about the needs of Black America in the political landscape and why Black voices are specifically needed to cover the election to speak to those needs.

The National Association of Black Journalists also released a statement in condemnation of the decision, which further made the need for acknowledgement urgent.

“As the voting bloc which will most certainly heavily determine the direction of this country in the upcoming election, it is vital any and all media outlets have a diverse newsroom, including individuals of color in decision making positions to speak to and address the issues and concerns directly impacting the Black community, it read. “Representation matters and the media needs our coverage on the issues to drive the discussion.”

Source: Getty / Getty

We all remember the flack Kathy Griffin caught when she posed with a replica of a severed head in the likeness of our new president, Donald Trump.

Naturally, it was a huge cultural moment in the sense that people, even those who disagreed with Trump, found it too offensive, too much, she’d taken it too far. And there were several people who shared this opinion.

Yesterday, the moment was resurrected…by Griffin herself.

Cheadle posed an image of himself in a cap bearing the Sleeping Giants emblem. The organization seeks to highlight bigotry in sexism in various publications and advocate for ad removals from those media outlets—like Breitbart.

For one reason or another, the image triggered Griffin and she insinuated that Cheadle was a hypocrite for his associations with the organization.

In response, Cheadle hit her with four characters: “huh?”

In response, Cheadle explained that the two were never friends because if they had been, he would have told her that her idea to hold the likeness of the President’s severed head was ill conceived.