Accused of having a "white savior" complex award winning newscaster Wendy Bell was fired for being white and is now suing on those grounds.
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... She continued, claiming she found ?HOPE? after watching a young, African American bus boy hustling at his restaurant job while Bell was out to eat with her husband and sons. She complimented the teen through his manager, who later passed the praise on to him.
?It will be some time before I forget the smile that beamed across that young worker?s face ? or the look in his eyes as we caught each other?s gaze,? Bell wrote. ?I wonder how long it had been since someone told him he was special.?
Almost immediately, critics called her words racist and accused Bell of having a white savior complex. Two days later, the anchor removed the Facebook post and apologized. Seven days after that, on the same day as a meeting between the station management and the Pittsburgh Black Media Federation, the TV station fired her.
?WTAE has ended its relationship with anchor Wendy Bell,? read a statement from the station?s parent company, Hearst Television, reported the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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