This has been a fundamental problem with news institutions, now and in the past. They attempt to cover racism and inequality without understanding it themselves.

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Jun 4 2020 on Twitter, responding to Dave Jamieson writing "More than 30 journalists of color at the Philadelphia Inquirer are calling out sick today in protest of systemic racism; others are taking part in a byline strike. This was prompted by the paper's disastrous 'Buildings Matter, Too' headline"

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