There's no solace in silence for black women
By Renée Graham GLOBE COLUMNIST OCTOBER 13, 2017
SHE DEMANDED more from the president, a man who devalued black lives by ignoring the violence that threatened them. In anger, she indicted his administration for its indifference and a mindset corrupted by centuries of white supremacy. She then faced condemnation from those who believed her criticism of this nation’s chief executive had gone too far.
I’m not talking about Jemele Hill and President Trump. I’m talking about Ida B. Wells-Barnett and President William McKinley.
What’s happening to Hill, the sharp, engaging ESPN host targeted by Trump and twice suspended by the network for tweeting her opinions about the president and, more recently, NFL protests against racial injustice, isn’t new. This is straight out of a White House playbook dating back more than a century to Wells-Barnett, a pioneering African-American journalist and activist who was excoriated for challenging McKinley’s inaction on anti-lynching legislation.
Trump is just the latest president to use a black woman to score cheap political points.
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