1. Good morning! There's a story in the Times about the racism of @WNYC, the country's biggest public radio station, but it misses a HUGE actor in the story, @lwalker, & only get 1/2 of how white women go to/from big jobs w/o experience in nonprofits. nytimes.com/2020/07/03/nyr…
2. The story does a good job showing the staff revolt @WNYC about hiring of EIC @audreyhasnews, a white women chosen to lead the pub radio station of a city w a majority nonwhite population, who hasn't lived in NYC & who has no radio experience. ("Car Talk" is what she likes?) 
3. NYT reporter @giniaNYT describes many of @WNYC horrors of the past few years, with a big omissions. These horrors came to light when @sukisworld outed John Hockenberry's harassment in @TheCut thecut.com/2017/12/public…
4. Horrifyingly, it turned out Hockenberry had harassed women of color, chasing 3 Black women co-hosts away from @thetakeaway. Journalist @farai went back to @TheTakeaway )the show Hockenbery harassed her out of in 2017) to discuss... wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takea…
5. @TheTakeaway co-host @AdaoraUdoji wrote about the horrors of being a Black woman John Hockenberry co-host as well in 2017 theguardian.com/world/commenti…
7. Former WNYC president @lwalker knew about Hockenberry's treatment for years & maintained a nearly all-white mgmt team. She survived the initial storm when all the shit came out. And then, about a year later, she left quietly.
8. What I found so weird about @audreyhasnews's hire—and it IS a VERY strange hire—was that it was announced near when @lwalker was named the new president of @AtBennington College.
Walker has no PhD & has never been a FT professor.
vermontbiz.com/news/2020/june…
Walker has no PhD & has never been a FT professor.
vermontbiz.com/news/2020/june…
9. So here you had @lwalker, a white woman w no academic experience or terminal degree, leaving WNYC in disgrace & having over seen a racist implosion, going off to head a college.
And here you had @audreyhasnews, a white woman w no experience in radio or NY, coming in to @WNYC.
And here you had @audreyhasnews, a white woman w no experience in radio or NY, coming in to @WNYC.
10. Reminds me how white women are most likely to benefit from affirmative action. @lwalker gets to be a college president! How many Black women w PhDs will never get that chance? @audreyhasnews gets to head NYC! Did a Black NYC journalist get that chance?
washingtonpost.com/opinions/who-b…
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11. When I think of all the talented journalists of color (especially Black women) like work in public radio & have been vocal about it to their detriment (cc @AMontgomery_998 @ArionneNettles), it is painful to see how seamlessly white woman benefit...
12. ...from situations built on top of the discrimination of others.
I feel for the faculty, staff and students at @AtBennington who will get a president w/o a terminal degree & who oversaw a workplace full of racism & sexual harassment for MANY YEARS.
I feel for the faculty, staff and students at @AtBennington who will get a president w/o a terminal degree & who oversaw a workplace full of racism & sexual harassment for MANY YEARS.
13/13 And I feel for the DYNAMIC journalists of color at WNYC who will be led by an EIC whose radio experience includes having "worked the phones for pledge drives at her local public-radio station in college and enjoyed “Car Talk.’’ //
Yup, @unbuttonmyeyes. Car Talk ended in 2012, and though a host had died The Best of Car Talk ran on 600+ public radio stations for 5 years. But even THAT ended in 2017!!
And pro-tip prior to a move to NYC @audreyhasnews - don’t flash car ❤️ too much.
And pro-tip prior to a move to NYC @audreyhasnews - don’t flash car ❤️ too much.
Also, can a mix of homosexuals and heterosexuals tell me what comes to mind when they hear "troubles with a capital T")? Because to this homosexual, it's a reference to The Music Man, not to Northern Ireland
