Trump steady belittling minorities as he wages 'war' against our communities.

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5. they're fucking doing their job

...and people who summarily criticize professionals assigned by their news agencies to do the journalism they spent their lives preparing for, like Yamiche Alcindor and Ebony McMorris, WHO WE'RE FUCKING DISCUSSING HERE, wouldn't be able to match their life experience and efforts confronting this administration to ANY of the work they're doing.

But here we have an ad homininem attack on them in a thread about Trump belittling the two professional, black women reporters who have done nothing but confront this administration - the poster doing the very same kind of slanderous belittling of these black women I'd guess they know nothing of substance about beyond the projections.

THIS is what MY community faces EVERY day. No shame, just piling onto what is fast becoming the de facto denial of citizenship of people like me.

Let's take a look at who you've belittled.

Yamiche Alcindor was born in Miami, Florida, to Haitian-born parents.[7][8] When she was in high school, she was an intern at the Westside Gazette, a local African-American newspaper, and the Miami Herald (2005).[9][10] She earned a bachelor's degree in English and government with a minor in African-American studies at Georgetown University in 2009. While studying, she became a member of the predominantly African-American sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha, and she interned at The Seattle Times (2006), the Miami Herald again (2007), the Botswanan newspaper Mmegi (2008), and The Washington Post (2009). She aspired to become a civil rights journalist, and was inspired by African-American journalist Gwen Ifill and contemporary newspaper reporting surrounding Emmett Till. In 2015, Alcindor received a master's degree in "broadcast news and documentary filmmaking" at New York University.

Career

Alcindor's first full-time job was as a reporter at Newsday, a newspaper based in Melville, New York.[8] She was employed there for two years covering, among other things, the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

Alcindor became a multimedia reporter for USA Today in December 2011 to cover national breaking news. For the newspaper, Alcindor reported on, among other things, the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the killing of Trayvon Martin, the Ferguson unrest, and the Baltimore protests. In 2013, Alcindor began to contribute to NBC News and MSNBC as a guest. Programs she appeared on include Morning Joe, The Rachel Maddow Show, PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton, Hardball with Chris Matthews, and Meet the Press.

She left USA Today to work for The New York Times as a national political reporter in November 2015. At The New York Times, Alcindor covered the presidential campaigns of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. She also produced a documentary called The Trouble with Innocence (2015) about a man who was wrongly convicted of murder. Alcindor also appeared in the 2018 television series The Fourth Estate about Times staff covering the first 100 days of the Trump presidency.

In January 2018, Alcindor was named White House correspondent of the PBS NewsHour, replacing John Yang, who was named the NewsHour's national correspondent. In this position, Alcindor first covered the Trump presidency. During the 2020 presidential election season, she was one of the moderators of the sixth Democratic debate. Erik Wemple of The Washington Post reported President Donald Trump has repeatedly insulted Alcindor at White House press conferences. Alcindor received the 2020 Aldo Beckman Award for Overall Excellence in White House Coverage from the White House Correspondents' Association.

In May 2021, Alcindor became the new moderator of Washington Week.

In January 2022, Alcindor left PBS NewsHour and, in March 2022, began work as a Washington correspondent for NBC News.

On February 24, 2023, Alcindor made her last appearance moderating Washington Week, announcing that she intends to spend more time fulfilling her duties at NBC and writing her memoir.

Awards and honors

Alcindor was named "Emerging Journalist of the Year" by the National Association of Black Journalists in 2013.

In 2016, she was nominated for a Shorty Award in the Journalist category. The next year, Alcindor won an award in a tribute to journalist Gwen Ifill, who had died in November 2016, at the Syracuse University's Toner Prize ceremony.

Alcindor was number 13 on the 2017 edition of "The Root 100", an annual list by the magazine The Root of the most influential African Americans between the ages of 25 and 45. She was number 5 on the 2020 edition of "The Root 100".
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Ebony McMorris, who represents American Urban Radio Network (AURN), recently spoke with the AFRO on the integral role of the Black Press in telling America’s story and the motivation behind her willingness to uphold truth and record history in a time of outrage, fear and oppression.

“There was fair warning for Project 2025. Now we’ve got to figure out how we not just report the [news], but help pick up the pieces,” McMorris said.

Her comments come as Donald Trump, the 47th president of the United States, carries out mass firings of federal workers throughout the nation and works toward the largest deportation of immigrants in the nation’s history. McMorris said this is a time where all journalists should be concerned– but not defeated.

“I’m nervous about what’s going to happen in housing. I’m nervous about what’s going to happen to relief organizations that have been helping the everyday person that cannot function anymore,” she said. “I’m nervous about what’s going to happen with Black businesses because he has come after everything– DEI, supplier contracts–all of that.”
“The question is, how do we rebuild? We’ve done it before, it has never been easy, but we have always prevailed,” she affirmed.

McMorris noted the recent executive actions are part of a playbook that has been seen before, in the Great Depression and during the Jim Crow era.

“The encouragement that I have comes from my community and comes from myself. I think of Alice Allison Dunnigan, who was one of the first Black journalists to have her press credentials at the White House,” said McMorris. “She said she ‘covers the stories just like everybody else,’ but her second job ‘is to fight oppression in that room.’ So, this is the time–here. This is when we’re needed the most. We’ve got to be able to really show up, and I’m encouraged at the amount of Black Press that’s coming together. They really want to put the truth in places that are dark.”

https://afro.com/ebony-mcmorris-white-house-black-press/


...you've belittled two great women.

Congrats.