Speaking at NABJ17 (The National Association of Black Journalists) in New Orleans on Friday, Omarosa Manigault, director of communications for the Office of Public Liason for the Trump Administration, watched as black members of the audience turned their backs to her while she conversed with Bounce TV’s Ed Gordon.
The hostility toward Manigault should not have been unexpected; after she was added to the panel, The New York Times’ Nikole Hannah-Jones, who was scheduled to moderate the panel on police brutality, which featured Valerie Castile, Sandra Sterling, and the New Yorker’s Jelani Cobb, pulled out, as did Cobb; Gordon replaced Hannah-Jones as the event’s moderator.
New York Times reporter Yamiche Alcindor chronicled what happened as Manigault and Gordon argued:
Wait, Manigault said, “Google me?” Isn’t the Left okay with someone telling them to Google something?
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via Daily Wire
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