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What CBS News Gets Right About The Diversity Issue In Media
Diversity in is such an annoying word. It basically exists as proof of how White people like to tout their achievements in an arena that they’ve ruined for life.
Back when I was a novice writer in the nineties, mailing query letters — and waiting a whole month or two to get that rejection envelope — it quickly became apparent that being a young Black woman with the ambition and drive for excellence wasn’t going to guarantee a fulfilling outcome.
It was bloody hard to get both feet in the door, and stay in long enough to plot the next step to the top. My naivety was embarrassing, and when I look back, I’m often compelled to burst out in laughter when I recall how I actually believed that writing for Vogue Magazine was a valid possibility.
LOL!
Years later, I was informed that only the clones of offsprings of movie stars like Candice Bergen’s Chloe Malle or burgeoning socialites like English-born Plum Sykes, are allowed to step into the splendorous pages and wardrobe facilities of an iconic brand, that still doesn’t bother with all the fuss about — diversity.
Before British Vogue’s former editor-in-chief, Alexandra Shulman bowed out to help usher in the history-making appointment of British-Ghanaian fashion sculptor, Edward Enninful, her…
