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Okay. About this. This will be a short thread. Lisa has given my permission to tell all the details.https://twitter.com/rubyhamad/status/1031356010995150848 …
Lisa Benson Cooper is a broadcast journalist in Kansas City Missouri. Going by Lisa Benson on air, she has more than 20 years experience. She has won an Emmy-award for her journalism. She is a 42 year old married African-American woman with 2 children, a 5 yr old and a 2 yr old.
She has worked at for the last 14 years at 14+ years at KSHB-TV., which is an NBC affiliate owned by EW Scripps. Scripps own 33 television stations and 33 radio stations across the USA.
On May 9th, Lisa shared this piece this I wrote for The Guardian, about a common but only recently voiced phenomenon where WoC who raise issues about race & their mistreatment esp. at work are punished by white women who claim the WoC is "attacking" them.https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/08/how-white-women-use-strategic-tears-to-avoid-accountability …
Lisa shared this piece on her PERSONAL Facebook page which is set to private. Two white female colleagues saw her post, which she tells me she shared int he hopes of "starting a conversation" & "hopefully enlighten people" about her own other WoC's experiences. They contacted HR.
On May 11th Lisa was suspended from her job at KSHB-TV, for making "made broad, unfair characterizations of white women as a group based on their race and gender." She and my article did no such thing. This is a lie and must be flatout rejected.
And, since there is always more to the story: Lisa has previously filed a discrimination complaint and she suspects this was a convenient excuse to get rid of someone who and already objected to be being treated poorly at work on account of her race.
Lisa has a lawyer who is working to prove that: A) The article & her sharing of it was not discriminatory or offensive. B) The argument employed in the article is a point of discussion in many other mainstream & academic platforms. C) Lisa was unfairly dismissed.
Please share this thread and tag anyone you think can help bring attention to this. Lisa says she wants people to "know this truth about a company they're entrusting to represent them and their community." #Justice4Lisa
My article went viral with most page views & shares occurring in the US. We can also make Lisa's story go viral to ensure she is adequately compensated for this blatant targeting & discrimination. All she did was share my article to her personal page. WoC: we are strong together.
Is there a fund for her legal fees? I would like to donate.
Not yet. I haven't asked her as yet if she would like one set up to help with costs and I don't want to do anything without her approval. Thank you and I'll keep everyone in the know. 
Could you put me in touch for the daily beast? (American outlet)
LRT: Not only did they prove her point, but also made it clear: if you are a white ally, it's on you to share and explain this to your fellow white women, because WoC (especially Black women) will ALWAYS be penalized for speaking up for themselves, no matter how they do it.
If you stand up against racism in the workplace you have to be prepared to walk or be pushed. I was agency staff on a short so I chose to walk but that’s a small blip compared to a colleague losing her job of 14 years & the utter devastation that has caused to her life.
But we’re post racial now. 
Post racial, post sexist, thoroughly egalitarian, and beyond "identity politics" /sarcasm (because someone *will* think I'm serious)
Just read your article for the first time and omg... I have the privilege of being fair skinned if I stay out of the sun, and yet I’ve still spent my life learning I must be excessively mindful of how I talk to white women at school/work. Anything else and I’m aggressive.
'The privilege of being fair skinned'? So, that's a privilege now? Let's be mindful of how we say things.
You should do more research on this before dismissing it. There is a privilege. It’s called light skin privilege.
“But you look so white” is a phrase I was slammed with before I took my husbands name. If that doesn’t scream light skin, white privileged or, at very least, since this always happened when dealing with TSA, racial profiling.
I listened to a young woman at a workshop speak about keeping her job throughout college in the admin office as a “light skinned woman” to help get more students of color onto the campus. Just because you never heard of it or haven’t researched it doesn’t mean it’s #fakenews
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