I am disgusted and I have had it with MSNBC. Once again the Sisyphean nature of racial progress and the dominance of white privilege manifests itself in America, "It all began to unravel for Melissa Harris-Perry four weeks ago.
It was a day before the Iowa caucuses, and despite being in Des Moines, she was not hosting the weekend show on MSNBC that bears her name. That privilege belonged to the network’s legal correspondent, Ari Melber, who quickly introduced her in a split-screen at the beginning of the show.
“It’s a very exciting day here in the ‘Place for Politics,’ ” he said, referring to MSNBC’s slogan. “We are going to get to Melissa, who everyone can see there live in Iowa, in just a second.”
Ms. Harris-Perry vanished from the screen and Mr. Melber added, “That’s what we call proof of life.”
Mr. Melber was joking but the phrasing turned out to be eerily prescient when it came to how Ms. Harris-Perry felt she was treated by the network in the following weeks.
Two days after an email became public in which Ms. Harris-Perry said she felt “worthless” to NBC News executives, and after two weeks of her show being pre-empted so that the network could cover other news, an MSNBC spokesman on Sunday confirmed that the network and Ms. Harris-Perry were “parting ways.”
After Tense Weeks, Melissa Harris-Perry’s MSNBC Show Is Canceled - The New York Times
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