I'm Not Destined To Become A News Anchor
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I'm Not Destined To Become A News Anchor

I'd get fired my very first day.

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Being a Communications/Journalism major, I get plenty of questions about what I want to do with my major and what I'd like to pursue after college. It's taken a few years to really think of everything that I'd like to do as a career after my college years are over, and actually, I'm still discovering new things that I'd like to do.

Now, usually the first question people ask me is if I'd like to become a newscaster, and I've given it complete and utter though and my answer is a big, fat no.

Me being raised to be the woman that I am today, I'm not very afraid to speak my mind and say exactly how I may feel. Why would I have a job where I'm not even allowed to say how certain subjects may make me feel some sort of way or another? Or how they've impacted me and my thinking process? Especially when it deals with world issues and politics. You couldn't pay me enough to argue with old, bigoted, white men that are already making four times more than me.

We already know that if you speak your actually decent and humanistic opinion on Fox or CNN, you'll pretty much get called every offensive non-curse word in the book. Because that's how we do things in today's world, right? Someone says something that we may not agree with (that isn't even offensive to our culture, race, religion, gender, etc.) and we fight them with demeaning words.

Secondly, I'm African American. News stations' never like black women that speak their mind because that's just another way for them to say that we're "angry" and "attitude-filled." I'd get fired so quickly. Probably within the first day.

Lastly, let's not forget about former meteorologist, Rhonda Lee, who was fired for responding to a racist comment about her natural hair. She responded gracefully, yet, she was still fired for standing up for her culture and race. For more information on this story, click here.

Yep, I'm good. I'll write exactly how I feel behind a computer screen with whatever hair type I'd like to rock. I'm sure we'll meet again, old white men.

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