I’m at the Tulsa McGirt forum with @cliftonhowze. My first question - who thought this was a good idea? They aporebtky didn’t speak to any tribes about being here and the majority of the speakers are white.
The vast majority of people in attendance are dissenters. After Tulsa DA Steve Kunzweiler finished speaking someone in the crowd yelled “next white person!” to cheers.
Every speaker is interrupted continually because, again, this is a forum comprised primarily of white people intended for white people. But the people in attendance are not white.
I was thinking today of how weird a job journalism is - how that no matter what, every journalist has experiences that don't happen to people in other jobs. It made me think of the time I was held at gunpoint by TPD officers simply because of how stupid I am.
I was working at the @tulsaworld as a night cops reporter. I was determined to do a good job. When I interviewed there, I was much older than the typical night cops (entry level) reporter because I'd gotten a late start in journalism.
I told my future editors in that interview that I planned on working hard and either doing extremely well and succeeding, or discovering that I was no good and failing instantly. Either way I was determined to bust my ass.