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The debate we’ve been having with Jonathan Weisman over the past few weeks has made clear that the people who shape our national conversation can often be ignorant at best and biased at worst regarding some of the most important topics in our country today.
The back-and-forth with Weisman has demonstrated more than ever why we need more diverse newsrooms and why it’s important to have younger and more diverse voices in some of the most powerful rooms in our nation.
Weisman’s comments suggesting that Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar don’t represent the Midwest anymore than John Lewis represents the Deep South were deeply disturbing in the context of Trump’s continued racist attacks telling members to ‘go back’ to where they came from.
I'm from Virginia. There's always been dog-whistling about "real Virginians" designed to exclude families like mine.
Virginia began to turn blue when people in my family registered to vote for the first time and saw themselves reflected in our democracy.
Virginia began to turn blue when people in my family registered to vote for the first time and saw themselves reflected in our democracy.
We must fundamentally change the idea that people of color can’t exemplify the region -- or the nation -- in which we live.
