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White newsrooms only hired black reporters at all because of the civil unrest of the 1960s. African-American reporters at the time could actually tell you which riot got them hired
We came in under suspicion of “split loyalties.” Early in my career, I criticized coverage in the paper where I worked at the time. A manager called me in and said - without even a hint of irony: “We worry that you are here pushing a black agenda”
In other words, I was welcome to stay - only if I subscribed to what critical race theorists would later describe as the “white normative view” of world events
Including Thimas A Johnson, my mentor. He hipped me to what to expect as a Timesperson of color when I joined the paper in 90: doubts about ability, temperament and the famous quest for “qualified” minority journalists.
Brent, i hope you’re writing something real and deep and big on this moment. I can’t think of anyone better suited to it than you.
Second that @BrentNYT
I remember a movie from when I was a teenager starring Blair Underwood as a brother who got his newspaper job cuz of the Watts Riots.
What’s the movie?
During the Watts uprising in 1965, it was Bob Richardson, a messenger in the L.A. Times advertising department:https://www.latimes.com/local/wattsriots/la-me-watts-richardson-20150814-story.html …
Ah, found the newsroom photo from the Pulitzer the newsroom got for the coverage.pic.twitter.com/xVUtVSsh1R
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