Many criticize ex-president’s appearance at Black journalists’ conference as irresponsible
On Monday night, the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) announced that Donald Trump will participate in a panel discussion at the organization’s annual convention in Chicago, which starts on Wednesday.
The announcement, which said that the Q&A would “concentrate on the most pressing issues facing the Black community”, was met with swift online backlash from some Black journalists. They decried the decision to invite a presidential candidate who has lambasted Black journalists, led a movement to squash diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and who is responsible for increased anti-journalistic sentiment, including the popularization of the term “fake news” to describe factual, but potentially unflattering, reporting.
Tiffany Walden, a co-founder and editor-in-chief of The TRiiBE, a digital platform that focuses on Black Chicago, told the Guardian that NABJ’s decision was “irresponsible”.
Maybe they’re playing to fuck him up by asking proper, unscripted questions?
i think someone in the article put it best
If a super conservative white woman can’t get straight answers out of him, what makes you think that three black women are going to get them?”
in the same way a phlebotomist should still try to get blood from an actual stone?
because - and with all due respect to journalists of all backgrounds - i’m neither black nor a journalist, but i would think that if i were either (or both) i’d know a huge waste of my time when i saw one.
Remember, he doesn’t like nasty questions. Like : “What do you say to Americans, who are watching you right now, who are scared?”
This doesn’t work. I hope they’re not naive enough to think that’ll work. It doesn’t even matter what happens there. All Trump and his team want is the victory of him appearing there. They want the photo opportunity, they want the headline, they want to be able to say look the blacks love us. And they know nobody in their base is going to question it. They also know the vast majority of Americans won’t check into the actual events
Important context for any here who might not read the article:
The outcry led to the NABJ president, Ken Lemon, and others defending the decision, saying that Black reporters should have the opportunity to question a political candidate.
“Every year, every presidential election cycle, we invite the presidential candidates to come,” Lemon said to NABJ student journalists on Tuesday. “We extend that to anyone who is a nominee and in this case we have two presumptive nominees. We invited both of them … This is an important hour. We have people whose lives are depending on what happens in November … This is a great opportunity for us to vet the candidate right here on our ground.”
Ask him his favourite Bible verse.
The word “trump” never appears, so he’s never read it.
‘It puts everyone in a really bad position’
Sounds like something you could say about nearly anything the man has done that impacts anyone other than himself.
Personally, I understand their concerns, but I also think in the end it’s just going to be a good opportunity for Trump to show his ass and then strut around like he’s done something we should all be impressed by. (as usual)
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