![]() ![]() “I should have said something instead of looking around in horror. “I remember feeling really taken aback, because there’s a Black-and-Jewish person right in front of you,” Scruggs said when I called her this week. Neither of us really knew what to do or say in the moment, but we knew he was in the wrong. Silently, Scruggs caught my gaze and grimaced. But he soon spiraled into a larger rant about “the Jews,” assuming he was speaking to an audience who shared his opinions. He was allegedly informing us Black would-be journalists of the importance of protecting our work from white editors who would sully it with cultural ignorance. He’d started by bitterly complaining about a white editor who’d insisted on characterizing Louis Farrakhan as anti-Semitic in a story the professor had written. I still remember the look of discomfort my friend Danielle Scruggs shot me as our professor went on an extended rant in an undergraduate journalism class at Howard University.
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