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Slack.com slash DHQ. So this is a weird experience for me, not something I would usually do, but

I'm going to defend NBC. And it feels very strange, but maybe defend isn't the right

word. Instead of what I want to do is lend some context. Maybe you've heard this story

about Gabrielle Union, who was a judge on America's Got Talent on NBC, and then was booted

off the show after the season. She did one season and then was, I guess, fired. And

after being fired, she came back and claimed that she was the victim of racism and sexism.

And it was a toxic work environment. She said that the environment backstage was racist

and sexist and toxic, and she was a victim of it. And it was only because of her efforts

to be a whistleblower and clamp down on all the racism that she was fired. So fired and

then claims racism. And that's the sequence of events. By the way, Julian Huff was another

judge on America's Got Talent, also an actress, I think, but white. And she was also booted

from the show, apparently. So I'm not sure if there was racism against her as well, if

there's an anti-white and anti-black racism going on at NBC, maybe they got all the bases

covered, I don't know. But so this has been this has been the story. It's a pretty big

story, at least an entertainment media and on social media. And the way that the story

is reported and talked about, it's just Gabrielle Union was a victim of racism stated pretty

much as a fact with no one apparently actually looking at the claims themselves to get a

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