Last week, lost amid the mourning for Charlie Kirk and the axing of Jimmy Kimmel, another firing indicated that we may be in a positive cultural shift.

 

It's worth going back nearly a decade to marvel at how MSNBC's then-hater-in-chief Joy Reid clung to her job.  It came to light that Reid had mockingly implied that Democrat Charlie Crist was a closeted homosexual.  When her slander was exposed, Reid claimed she had been 'hacked' and enlisted the FBI to track down the culprits.  It was the most sordid episode in Joy Reid's hate-filled career, but guess what?  Despite the homophobia and the lies, Reid kept her job.  Any white person would have been cut loose immediately, but she was immunized by her pigmentation.  Call it 'Black privilege.'

 

But how things have changed!  Last week, The Washington Post canned opinion writer Karen Attiah, a dishonest woman who finally went too far.   Attiah mangled a quote to make just-murdered Charlie Kirk look like a virulent racist who shouldn't be mourned.  Kirk had once taken aim at four specific Black women, among them Ketanji Brown Jackson and Joy Reid, who freely admitted that their success was due to affirmative action.  Kirk addressed them directly: 'You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously.'  But here's what that quote looked like after passing through Karen Attiah's mind and keyboard:  'Black women do not have the brain processing power to be takenseriously.'

 

Attiah blatantly, probably intentionally, made it appear that Kirk denigrated ALL Black women, not just a few.  She also described him as 'a white man that espoused violence.'  Her bosses were eager for an excuse to fire Attiah, citing dismal performance reviews, and they did just that.  Karen Attiah, of course, took on the martyr role, saying she was fired for 'speaking out against political violence, racial double standards, and America's apathy toward guns.'  Nice try, Karen, but you were fired for dishonesty and for slandering a guy who had not yet been buried.

 

In recent years, some other prominent Black 'journalists' have also been axed, including Don Lemon, the aforementioned Joy Reid, and the loathsome Tiffany Cross, who called Florida' the d**k of the country' and urged its castration.  Cross was amused by her wit; not even MSNBC could stomach her endless smears.

 

Network honchos were once reluctant to boot Black writers and anchors, knowing that the wrath of Al Sharpton may come down upon them.  But things have changed, and perhaps Donald Trump has something to do with it.  Black and White reporters are finally being held to the same standards, which is good for the media and for the country.  You might say that the race card has been Trumped!