Nikole Hannah-Jones: ‘Trump Used His Most Vile Rhetoric and Attacks Against Black Women Journalists ... We Can Expect More of That’

RUSH EXCERPT:

HANNAH-JONES: "We can look at the way that Trump used his most vile rhetoric and attacks against black women journalists, against Yamiche Alcindor, April Ryan. We saw this again and again. We can expect more of that. There’s a reason for that that black women hold a very particular position in the society. Black women also were those who voted against Trump at the highest rates of all racial groups. And so, when black women seek to hold that power accountable, that’s seen as more dangerous. And that black women are less protected in this society. So, I know that as a black woman journalist, you know, my former Twitter handle I’m no longer using as a platform anymore, was idabwells. That was me always trying to center myself in a tradition, a tradition of the black press, a tradition of black women who were determined to tell the truth, even if it cost them.”