Source: Slaven Vlasic / Getty Zerlina Maxwell Questions Why White Reporters Are So Ignorant To Black Culture Earlier this morning Kamala Harris walked out onto a stage to Tupac Shakur’s “California” at a book event in Washington, D.C. During the conversation, she made mention that she is a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and was met with a resounding round of “skee-wee’s”. Chelsea Janes (guess the race), a national reporter for the Washington Post was on-hand to cover the event and was utter confused by the sound of pink and green, she tweeted (and subsequently deleted, but we’ll get to why in a minute): Members of her Howard sorority are in the room and screeched when she mentioned her time there. Did not expect to hear screeches here. Chelsea was completely oblivious to the signal of the AKA’s and her ignorance sparked an annoyed backlash on Twitter. One such annoyed party is SiriusXM Senior Director of Progressive Programming and MSNBC regular Zerlina Maxwell. She rightfully and incredulously asked why white reporters are allowed to consistently lack knowledge of Black culture. Kamala is running for POTUS (probably). She's an AKA. The fact that the white reporter sent to cover her didn't know what Skee Wee was is not a good sign that the media is going to cover her with the cultural competency required. And it IS a requirement! pic.twitter.com/9MrZuGynIz — Zerlina Maxwell (@ZerlinaMaxwell) January 10, 2019 Valid. Point. Sista. Preach. For her part, Chelsea deleted the tweet and offered a mea culpa for her uneducated take. Guys, I’m so sorry. Had never heard about the Skee Wee call before, but I certainly have now. Meant only to convey enthusiasm in the room! https://t.co/bHI0eBPegP — Chelsea Janes (@chelsea_janes) January 10, 2019 Legit thanks to all who pointed out my ignorance. Big whiff. I know better now, and am sorry I didn’t before! — Chelsea Janes (@chelsea_janes) January 10, 2019 Anyway, my main point was that Howard loved Harris and showed it tonight. My apologies to the AKAs. — Chelsea Janes (@chelsea_janes) January 10, 2019 White journalists need to do more journalism…
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Zerlina Maxwell Divinely Drags White Reporter 9 Different Ways For Being Ignorant Of Black Greek Knowledge
