The Power of White Women Tears

This just in, sweeping sympathy over white woman is enough to get POC employees fired. In late August, reporter Lisa Benson was fired from her longtime reporting job at KSHB, a Kansas city news outlet under NBC, in what was the icing on the cake to a series or unjust treatments.

Benson shared an article on her private Facebook account written by an other journalist, with no commentary, about how White women use their tears to combat confrontation about racial aggression to make themselves the victim and divert the actions from their racist actions. KSHB says they fired Benson for making sweeping generalizations about white women and commented that they stand by "their commitment to diversity and inclusion."

Benson had a history of troubles with KSHB. Filing a discrimination report in 2016, Benson believes the layoff was part of retaliation towards the suit in addition to the network's support of anything but a "commitment of diversity and inclusion". The inclusion of who are they truly considering- because it clearly was not Benson's.

Ironically enough, although there were no actual "white women tears" shed that led to here being laid off, all it took was an article about it for the department to show where their allegiance falls. Therefore, proving the controversial article's exact point: the emotional safety and concern of white women is seen as a greater priority than the generational trauma and concerns of POC sisters.