When pro Trump writers went marauding through the halls of Congress a few weeks ago CNN commentator Keith Boykin tweeted

I warned you he posted this clip from 2019 he calls for civil war divides the country

He encourages civil war practical Boykin is black and in that

2019 segment he was talking with two white panelists about some of Donald Trump's tweets

Boykin saw them as a threat of civil war and the other panelists shook their heads

He should be challenged

I should you know that in the last four years a lot of black journalists have had this experience

They rang alarm bells that their white colleagues ignored or dismissed holding him to a lower standard

He should not be behaving

You know you can go back and watch them just literally being left out by their

counterparts at the time Karen Atia is the global opinions editor for the Washington Post

We're always the canaries in the coal mine in many ways and she says it often takes something drastic for everyone else to wake up

Like that attack on the Capitol. I saw a lot of my white peers just shocked that you know such a thing

Could happen that these dark forces

Could then turn upon our very democracy in and of itself

And I think that's what a lot of black and non-white journalists have been saying all these years

Do you think those journalists are being heard today?

I mean you tell me are you listening now?

Consider this news organizations have learned some painful lessons in the last four years

Recognizing that the stories we choose to cover and how we cover them have lasting consequences in people's lives

From NPR I'm Ari Shapiro. It's Friday January 29th

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