663 - Racism and bigotry shouldn't come with job for Black journalists
It wasn’t the first time being called that in my life, of course. But there was something about it, seeing that word written down, and used so readily in others that followed — Black parents were lazy N-words, and I was called an enabling N-word for not calling out the lazy N-words. It cut me like a knife. Fifteen years later, it still angers me. After years of staying silent about the pain it caused, and from the other slurs that followed to this day, I came to a realization. This behavior...
