Media Racism History 101: Part 3

In 2020, U.S. Establishment newspapers, like Centi-Billionaire U.S. Oligarch and Whole Foods/Amazon Inc. Owner Jeff Bezos's Washington Post , claim to be opposed to institutional racism and systematic racism in the United States and elsewhere.

Yet, historically, in the 20th-century the U.S. Establishment's Washington Post newspaper was apparently not that quick about ending racial discrimination against African-American journalists in its editorial offices. Although, for example, well over 50 percent of Washington, D.C.'s residents were then African-American in the early 1970's, only 37 of the Washington Post's 396 newsroom employees were African-American in 1972.

But in response to this historic institutional racism at the Washington Post newspaper, seven of its African-American employees then filed a discrimination complaint against the Washington Post with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission [EEOC] and "the EEOC's local office issued a finding of discrimination on the basis of race," according to a book, titled The Washington Post:The First 100 Years, that Chalmers Roberts wrote.

And as late in the 20th-century as 1986, the Washington Post was also accused of publishing a racist article in its Sunday magazine and "hundreds of demonstrators...massed in front of the Post, dumped copies of the magazine and demanded an end to its publication," according to a book, titled The Press, that Ellis Cose wrote.