Out of economic necessity, black workers have long worked for employers who were racist.
Rep. Mark Meadows trotted out Lynne Patton, a black woman who worked for the Trump family and Trump’s presidential campaign and is now an official with the Department of Housing and Urban Development. By Michelle Singletary Michelle Singletary Personal finance columnist Email Bio Follow February 28 at 7:23 AM There was a moment during Michael Cohen’s testimony about his 10-year employment with President Trump that made my blood boil.
And then there was this: “He told me that black people would never vote for him because they were too stupid.” Then Meadows said: “I’ve talked to the president more than 300 times. I have not heard a racist comment from the president.” Academic research papers have looked at workplace discrimination, finding that racism takes all forms — not just in what we hear people say.
NEW: I just interviewed Lynne Patton, the Black HUD official who stood next to Rep. Mark Meadows to say that President Trump is not racist. She told me: “To me, today was not about the color of my skin. Today was about two people who know the president equally and who disagree.” pic.twitter.com/TJXfHhWXlI
I worked with an editor who never said a racist thing to my face, but she was indeed a racist in how she treated me. My interactions with her still haunt me. It was one of the lowest points in my career. I was an intern at my first newspaper job in Baltimore, and there were many days her disparate treatment of me compared with the white interns sent me to the bathroom in tears.
Last week I asked: Even though it’s costing her money, is Mo’Nique right to openly protest her pay disparity?“Mo’Nique is standing up to a sexist society that says ‘put up and shut up,’” wrote Morgan Randall, of Mount Vernon, Wash.
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