"... almost every single one of us reports to a white editor ..." I know this but it struck me hard in the context of that letter. Damn.
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Journalists of color: have you ever been edited by a person of color? What about by a woman of color? It's so rare. And that's so shitty.
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It's not just one edit, either. It's the edit itself, the copy edit, the line edit, the top edit. All of these, done by white editors.
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You're a person of color and you're writing about racism. Next thing you know, ten white editors fixed your story. That shit... uff.
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Imagine a publication where the story edit, the copy edit, the line edit, the top edit, are all done by people of color. Difficult, huh?
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And that's the way it's been. Through the Obama years and everything... It's 2016 but this industry has stayed so incredibly white.
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Journalists of color often doubt their basic ability to write... because all-white editors have worst assumptions about that ability.
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This open letter tho omg I wanna copy and paste every single line into tweets. @jaycaspiankang went all the way in.
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Oh also @jaycaspiankang is using "minority" now; a term that usually makes me cringe. But I wanna hear more about choosing that over POC.
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Diversity hires as gratification for white guilt. This shit is so on point.pic.twitter.com/VcE9bVguzn
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