News Black Media Federation Assists in Firing of White Newscaster, Fired for Being White

[Bladewire]

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.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ation-lawsuit/

[mineistaken]

In todays libby and PC world, if you arr white, you can not say anything.

[brassmonkey]

you really believe this shit???? was she white when they hired her??? way to think it through op!!!

[Bladewire]

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

you really believe this shit???? was she white when they hired her??? way to think it through op!!!

She was darker with longer hair when they first hired her.



After her skin got lighter, and hair shorter, they started treating her differently

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by Bladewire

She was darker with longer hair when they first hired her.



After her skin got lighter, and hair shorter, they started treating her differently

they knew she was white! first pic is Vanessa Bell Calloway 2nd one is wendy nice failed try dogg

[Horatio Caine]

TVs are racist. All those hdmi, wireless, netflix shit makes it too complicated for colored people to use. Whites do it on purpose.

[Bladewire]

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

they knew she was white!

They assumed she was black based on her application and name. As she got whiter next to her black co-host they started treating her differently then pointed the false finger of racism at her to get her fired.

Have you seen her replacement?

[Horatio Caine]

Originally Posted by Bladewire

They assumed she was black based on her application and name. As she got whiter next to her black co-host they started treating her differently then pointed the false finger of racism at her to get her fired.

Have you seen her replacement?

I hope replacement is black enough.
If not my buddy has cousin and she just finished her communications degree.

[Bladewire]

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

they knew she was white! first pic is Vanessa Bell Calloway 2nd one is wendy nice failed try dogg

BAHAHAHAHA!

I had you for a minute there though!!!! Hahaha

[Bladewire]

[dyna mo]

seems she was fired for making a racist facebook post.

https://www.facebook.com/wtae4/video...4228064888643/

[ilnjscb]

Haha - now you can't post a story that would have been "heartwarming" 15 years ago without being fired and thrown under the bus:

"We at WTAE would like to apologize for the actions of one of our anchors earlier this week.
Wendy Bell posted a message on her Facebook page that offended many of our viewers.
Her post offended us.
Wendy has since apologized for what she wrote and acknowledged it was insensitive.
Wendy is sorry for the words she chose, and so are we.
It was an egregious lack of judgment.
WTAE regrets it happened and is committed to making sure something like this doesn?t happen again"

Good job, idiots! Race relations are MUCH better now. This will end well!

[mineistaken]

Originally Posted by dyna mo

seems she was fired for making a racist facebook post.

https://www.facebook.com/wtae4/video...4228064888643/

It was not racist by any stretch. If non white person had written it it would not have even be noticed. Thus - fired for being white.

[dyna mo]

Originally Posted by mineistaken

It was not racist by any stretch. If non white person had written it it would not have even be noticed. Thus - fired for being white.

specifically my point was her employers found the fb post racist, i didn't think i needed to be so specific. so even more specifically- it's well within their boundaries to make a judgement call on this. her job is to deliver the news, not her biased opinion of the news.

[mineistaken]

Originally Posted by ilnjscb

Haha - now you can't post a story that would have been "heartwarming" 15 years ago without being fired and thrown under the bus:

"We at WTAE would like to apologize for the actions of one of our anchors earlier this week.
Wendy Bell posted a message on her Facebook page that offended many of our viewers.
Her post offended us.
Wendy has since apologized for what she wrote and acknowledged it was insensitive.
Wendy is sorry for the words she chose, and so are we.
It was an egregious lack of judgment.
WTAE regrets it happened and is committed to making sure something like this doesn?t happen again"

Good job, idiots! Race relations are MUCH better now. This will end well!

Unfortunately this is the PC word - anything is offensive if it is said by a white person.
Thank guilter/libby scum crowd for holding whites under double standard.

[mineistaken]

Originally Posted by dyna mo

specifically my point was her employers found the fb post racist

This excuse of why she was fired was already established in the thread. Nobody was claiming that employer actually fired her for "being white"

[Bladewire]

Originally Posted by mineistaken

It was not racist by any stretch. If non white person had written it it would not have even be noticed. Thus - fired for being white.

It was "racially insensitive" they say. I dated two TV reporters / newscasters, one lived with me for 2 1/2 years. The one I was with the longest worked at Fox and was fired over a Facebook feud that went public, he does porn now

The shit they have to do is insane and they're paid peanuts. They should make taking A PC course mandatory, unfortunately.

[dyna mo]

Originally Posted by mineistaken

It was not racist by any stretch. If non white person had written it it would not have even be noticed. Thus - fired for being white.

Originally Posted by mineistaken

This excuse of why she was fired was already established in the thread. Nobody was claiming that employer actually fired her for "being white"

umm, it's clear you are.

[dyna mo]

Originally Posted by mineistaken

This excuse of why she was fired was already established in the thread. Nobody was claiming that employer actually fired her for "being white"

heads up: her discrimination suit she filed most certainly claims discrimination for being white

?Had an African-American journalist said the same thing, it wouldn?t have generated the same quote-outcry-unquote,? her attorney, Sam Cordes, told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Monday after the suit was filed. ?What she said was benign at best. President Obama has said similar things.?

The lawsuit claims that WTAE-TV, an affiliate of Hearst Television, violated the Civil Rights Act when it fired Bell. She wants her job reinstated and to be compensated for backpay and attorney fees.

?Had Ms. Bell written the same comments about white criminal suspects or had her race not been white, Defendant would not have fired her, much less disciplined her,? the suit claims.

[LatinaCamChat]

I hope she wins a lot of money suing those idiot nig.gers

Side note, brassmonkey reminds me of Samuel Jackson playing the house nigga in Django

[JesseQuinn]

"... 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.”

wft?

totally nothing massively offensive about this, a white woman presuming that a Black male has no allies or support from family, friends, loved ones, is a lost soul who will have their life affirmed by the benevolence she chooses to bestow?

for real, fuck her

and she makes NOTE of this ish, publicly. If she really cared she wouldn't publicly pat herself on the back, willfully and unfairly disparaging the dude's community for what purpose exactly?

oh yeah, nothing but making peeps feel better about the stat quo

and her feeling ok from benefiting from it

would have canned her azz too. not for melanin content or lack thereof, but for being an idiot who said something incredibly ignorant that aside from being regressive cuts deep, to a lot of Black parents, particularly in NA. Native parents as well. If only they could love and care for their kids

fuck her

[Hannes]

why do people act this way... everybody is the same

[_Richard_]

Originally Posted by Bladewire

[center]?You needn?t be a criminal profiler to draw a mental sketch of the killers who broke so many hearts two weeks ago Wednesday,? Bell wrote on Facebook, words that were later deleted. ?? They are young black men, likely in their teens or in their early 20s. They have multiple siblings from multiple fathers and their mothers work multiple jobs. These boys have been in the system before. They?ve grown up there. They know the police. They?ve been arrested.? - is what was actually said, while no one had been arrested.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ation-lawsuit/

FTFY.

what's up man?