{"id":201783,"date":"2020-02-02T09:16:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T09:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=201783"},"modified":"2020-02-06T06:45:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T06:45:44","slug":"cnn-publishes-editorial-attacking-president-trumps-coronavirus-task-force-as-too-white-and-lacking-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=201783","title":{"rendered":"CNN Publishes Editorial Attacking President Trump&#8217;s Coronavirus Task Force as &#8220;Too White&#8221; and &#8220;Lacking Diversity&#8221;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Fewer White Faces Is More Important Than Stopping a Global Pandemic<\/h2>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Paul Kersey &#8212; The Unz Review Jan 30, 2020<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_201785\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/CNN-complains-about-Too-Many-White-Faces.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-201785\" class=\"wp-image-201785\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/CNN-complains-about-Too-Many-White-Faces.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/CNN-complains-about-Too-Many-White-Faces.png 600w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/CNN-complains-about-Too-Many-White-Faces-300x84.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-201785\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CNN complains about Too Many White Faces<\/p><\/div>\n<h5>Hate President Donald Trump all you want, but our corporate media is going overboard in normalizing hatred of white males (and by extension, white females). The elite in the USA are doing everything they can to delegitimize the idea white people have any moral authority. Even in the face of a global pandemic (coronavirus), the real problem is whiteness.<\/h5>\n<h5>Potentially tens of millions of people dying of coronavirus means nothing when a lack of diversity is found among those fighting the virus\u2026[<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/01\/30\/politics\/donald-trump-coronavirus-diversity-obama\/index.html?utm_content=2020-01-30T19%3A28%3A03&amp;utm_term=image&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twCNNp\">Coronavirus task force another example of Trump administration\u2019s lack of diversity<\/a><\/span>, CNN.com, January 30, 2020]:<\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>It\u2019s a statement that\u2019s as predictable as it is infuriating: President Donald Trump\u2019s administration lacks diversity.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>On Tuesday,<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"> <a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1222672488934584324\">Trump tweeted photos<\/a><\/span> of a briefing he\u2019d received on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/01\/30\/health\/us-coronavirus-thursday\/index.html\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">new coronavirus spreading out of China<\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cWe will continue to monitor the ongoing developments,\u201d the President said in his post. \u201cWe have the best experts anywhere in the world, and they are on top of it 24\/7!\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Who are these experts? They\u2019re largely the same sorts of white men (and a couple women on the sidelines) who\u2019ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/12\/13\/politics\/donald-trump-cabinet-diversity\/index.html\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">dominated the Trump administration from the very beginning<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">.<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>By contrast, former President Barack Obama\u2019s circle of advisers in the face of the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa was hardly so monochromatic. Neither was it so abysmal in terms of gender diversity. (Of course, to contextualize, Obama\u2019s administration, on the whole, was far more diverse than Trump\u2019s.)<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>And yet, as unsurprising as the diversity issue in the Trump era has become, it\u2019s still worth pointing out from time to time, especially as the country approaches the 2020 presidential election in earnest.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>That\u2019s partly because the recent photos of \u201cthe best experts\u201d telegraph the kinds of people the administration deems worthy of holding power \u2014 and even being in close proximity to it.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>They communicate a \u201cpatronage network that everyone is operating under,\u201d as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/2019\/politics\/trump-white-house-photos-lack-racial-diversity\/\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Eric Yellin<\/span><\/a>, an associate professor of history and American studies at the University of Richmond, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/2019\/politics\/trump-white-house-photos-lack-racial-diversity\/\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">told The Washington Post last year<\/span><\/a>, about a different set of photos. \u201cHaving that network be interracial is really important.\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>But the visuals that have come to define the Trump administration say something else, too. They signal which people in a multi-racial, half-female country Trump values the opinions of: mostly white men who are mirror images of the President himself.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5>You can hate President Trump all you want for the perceived failures of his administration, but it\u2019s articles such as this (published in <em>CNN)<\/em> reminding us where the real hate in America is entirely directed toward\u2026 the coronavirus could decimate the population of the planet, but the real problem is the all-white nature of Trump\u2019s team.<\/h5>\n<h5>Diversity. Inclusion. Equity (D.I.E.)\u2026 D.I.E, whitey, D.I.E.\u0012<\/h5>\n<h5>Even in the face of a global contagion from China comes howls of anti-white invective from those ensconced in corporate media upset white people stand to the advancement of coronavirus.<\/h5>\n<h5>Diversity or mass deaths\u2026 it should be obvious which side CNN is on<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/sbpdl\/cnn-publishes-editorial-attacking-president-trumps-coronavirus-task-force-as-too-white-and-lacking-diversity-fewer-white-faces-is-more-important-than-stopping-a-global-pandemic\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fewer white faces is more important than stopping a global pandemic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Race"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201783"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201787,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201783\/revisions\/201787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}