{"id":45834,"date":"2016-03-01T01:42:02","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T01:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45834"},"modified":"2016-03-01T01:42:02","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T01:42:02","slug":"thank-you-melissa-harris-perry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45834","title":{"rendered":"Thank You, Melissa Harris-Perry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/thank-you-melissa-harris-perry-tears-for-nerdland\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thank You, Melissa Harris-Perry<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Nation<\/a><br \/>\n2016-02-29<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EdgeofSports\" target=\"_blank\">Dave Zirin<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/thank-you-melissa-harris-perry-tears-for-nerdland\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Melissa_Harris_Perry_sg_img.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Melissa_Harris-Perry\" target=\"_blank\">Melissa Harris-Perry <\/a>(<em>You Tube<\/em>)<\/small><\/p>\n<p><em>The most diverse, intellectually bracing show on network news was treated as expendable, and its host would not have it. She and her show will be sorely missed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This weekend, a show that mattered to its audience as few programs on the vanilla ice-milk buffet that passes for news do, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/melissa-harris-perry\" target=\"_blank\">The Melissa Harris-Perry Show<\/a><\/em> on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MSNBC\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC<\/a>, was canceled, and it\u2019s a tragic as well as angering turn of events. \u201cTies were severed,\u201d as an MSNBC executive put it, after Melissa, who I am proud to count as a colleague, <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@JamilSmith\/melissa-harris-perry-s-email-to-her-nerdland-staff-11292bdc27cb\" target=\"_blank\">sent an email<\/a> to her staff explaining why she would not be hosting her show this past weekend after several weeks of having the program pre-empted for election coverage. The \u201cscorching\u201d email, now public, is being cherry-picked in articles, particularly the part where Melissa wrote, \u201cI will not be used as a tool for their purposes. I am not a token, mammy, or little brown bobble head.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/thank-you-melissa-harris-perry-tears-for-nerdland\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank You, Melissa Harris-Perry The Nation 2016-02-29 Dave Zirin Melissa Harris-Perry (You Tube) The most diverse, intellectually bracing show on network news was treated as expendable, and its host would not have it. She and her show will be sorely missed. This weekend, a show that mattered to its audience as few programs on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8413,8,20,25],"tags":[21597,6477,2684,2831],"class_list":["post-45834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-communications","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-dave-zirin","tag-melissa-harris-perry","tag-msnbc","tag-the-nation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45835,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45834\/revisions\/45835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}