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(1,189 posts) Sat Sep 17, 2022, 09:01 PM Sep 2022

Simon Ateba to John Kirby: Black people tell me you undermine the first black female Press Secretary

...And on your job at the White House — because I’ve been trying to ask this question — there’s — there seems to be some confusion about what your role is, what type of questions should we ask you. Sometimes you act like a second press secretary. What’s — can you explain exactly what — what your job is at the White House? And if you’re a second press secretary, what type of questions should we ask you? Is it on food? Is it on national security?

And the reason I’m asking is because almost everywhere I go, I have Black people telling me that the reason you’re at the White House is to undermine the first female Black Secretary. So can you clarify that and explain why, you know, there are thousand national security expert at the National Security Council who can always be here and take question on national security. So what type of questions should we ask you that we can’t ask Karine?...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2022/09/16/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-and-national-security-council-coordinator-for-strategic-communications-john-kirby-september-16-2022/

The reporter is the one sounding misogynistic, imo.