@mekkaokereke Comedians didn't end the Vietnam War, even though they opposed it.
The brave journalists, black and white, that reported what was really going on were the ones that turned the tide and energized the public against that war.
I don't see sustained outrage against ANY serious journalist, editorialist, or cartoonist being fired - and that is disturbing in and of itself. We don't really care, maybe because they don't make us laugh or because they are writing about "hard things", or their drawings hold up a mirror to ourselves.
Letting the last black journalist on that "newspaper" go, and with such a lame justification, is terrible.
And we will mostly sweep it under the rug and forget about it, and that is tragic because it says something about how seriously we really are taking this situation.
We are sliding into fascism, just slowly enough that when we get there it will be too late, and future generations will ask, how did they not know?