Ok so THIS excellent (warning: also devastating) open letter by @jaycaspiankang to journalists of color: https://medium.com/kang-blog/an-open-letter-to-fellow-minority-journalists-2ccf3f1bbfeb#.h2sukxgbz …
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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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and that's why i find it hard to write for white pubs... it just doesn't sit well with me in any shape or form.
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I wish I could frame this and make this my background and mail this to people
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