Throughout March, it seemed like
American Urban Radio Networks’ April D.
Ryan was in the news every time I turned
around.
The
PUBLISHER’S
Pen
As I’m sure most of you know, Ms. Ryan
is a White House Correspondent. In fact,
she’s been in that role for twenty years.
Well, we’re in the month of April now.
So, I decided to bounce this question off
a few of my friends in the media to see
what their thoughts were on the sudden
spotlight: “How does a journalist main-
tain his/her integrity and equilibrium as
all those years grinding in the Nation’s
Capital garners more and more national
attention, courtesy of the White House?”
The consensus is that a true journalist
never wants to be THE story.
What I want to know is where are all the
Congressional Black Caucus leadership
while Ms. Ryan tangles with the Trump
administration week in and week out?
In fact, I recently saw Ms. Ryan
moderating a live panel on race relations
from Charlottesville. It was via C-Span
BookTV. (You know the room was filled
with folks that didn’t look like me.) And,
the three white men discussing their new
books certainly didn’t look like me.
Or, even United States Senator Cory
Booker, for that matter.
I don’t know about you. But, don’t you
find it odd that the current crop of Black
male leadership is content with allowing
a 78-year old U.S. Congresswoman from
California to stand toe-to-toe with a
sitting President of the United States of
America? Unassisted? Yet, you wonder
why half the time you cain’t tell if it’s a
man or a woman heading your way.
I guess that’s what respectability politics
has become.