1/ I remember the night after Obama won reelection in 2012 I met up with a friend for a drink. The first thing my friend did the moment I met up with her was complain about a policy of Obama’s. The friend I met up w/ is a white woman. I let her vent for a moment before I said:
2/ “I’ve been dealing with racist tropes about Michelle & Barack online for the past few years. I’ve watch them be eviscerated in every form of media. I am so mentally & emotionally exhausted by it because it hurts me personally. I need one night where he’s not being destroyed.”
3/ She backed off but this is what legacy media doesn’t get: as a Black/Latinx woman it’s not easy for me to see the media ignore and/or eviscerate Castro and Kamala Harris daily. These are brilliant candidates and the media has done what it can to destroy their candidacies.
4/ Legacy media will say it’s being “fair” but legacy media reminds me of academia in that they are insular and forget what it’s to be outside of their bubble. They forget what it’s like to be without a large platform with the loud microphone.
5/ Legacy media needs to ask this question “why is it that the four leading candidates are White and the four candidates of color are lagging behind them with money and polling?” Doesn’t media not see how they’ve helped shape this election? 
5b/Is legacy media really going to pretend that the four top (white) candidates are the best, that we live in a meritocracy? If you look at the resumes between the top 4 and the candidates of color, you know the top four aren’t the best. Not in experience, education (or charisma)
6/I’m not a conspiracy theorist. I’m someone who loves data. Part of my work is observation and assessment. The majority of the media is run by white people, they have the majority of the bylines, & the majority of airtime. Do they not see the presidential field looks like them?
