First off, I want to say that I love Lawrence O'Donnell'
s show and his style. That was a classy and effective approach that he took with Christie.
I do want to point out that I was disappoint
ed when I took a look at the 14 or so staff people he brought out. I don't remember seeing ANY Black folks. Even Lawrence himself, recently, made a comment that his staff had no idea about an important Civil Rights piece of history that he was talking about.
If somebody as progressiv
e as O'Donnell has a nearly ALL White staff, what does that say about the rest of the media? No wonder the country is being pulled more and more to the right. Media platforms are continuall
y given to people who make racist inferences about Black people and Latinos, Obama and his family, etc. 24/7, and they rarely get called on it. That can't help but normalize such discourse, which in my view, has helped undermine Obama's Presidency
.
Come on media. Seriously diversify your ranks. And I don't mean tokenism. At least MSNBC has given Eric Michael Dyson, Al Shaprton, and Melissa Perry, airtime recently, and I can tell you, it DEFINITELY has made a difference in terms of what the right-wing has been able to get away with.
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