MSNBC Morning Joe January 14, 2022 13:06:00
And he knew i had a facility for writing a little bit. i could pass essay exams but not anything else. and he got me an interview for a job at "the star." my father had been a unionized government worker which was committed to civil rights and helped integrate the restaurants downtown. black people couldn't eat in the cafeterias or in the restaurants downtown. and so my father had been a source for the government columnists of "the washington star" and had covered my father's union and strikes with fairness whereas "the washington post" had not, had been much more even mccarthy-ite in baiting....