#BlackWomenAtWork stories about discrimination go viral after Bill O'Reilly and Sean Spicer's disrespectful remarks
White House spokesman Sean Spicer and Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly stirred up a social media hornet's nest Tuesday with separate remarks that incensed black women from coast to coast. After O'Reilly suggested that Rep.
Maxine Waters was wearing a "James Brown wig," and Spicer dressed down a black reporter, April Ryan, for shaking her head as he spoke, offended black women took to Twitter in droves to share their experiences about workplace discrimination and disrespect.
"This happens to black women everyday at work," said Missouri-based activist Brittany Packnett, who kicked off the hashtag #BlackWomenAtWork after Spicer and O'Reilly's offending remarks. "Share your Maxine and April moments, so people dont think this is rare.
"Every black woman meets at least 3 @oreillyfactors and 5 @seanspicers a day.#BlackWomenAtWork" she tweeted moments later. "When I started #BlackWomenAtWork today I sadly knew it would trend. Not because Im special. Because I know how we get treated.".
The response was swift and unrelenting, with Rep. Waters herself being among the first to take a jab at OReilly and Spicer. "#BlackWomenAtWork face the double bind of gender and race," Brazille wrote.
Film director Gina Prince-Bythewood, who directed "Love and Basketball" and "The Secret Life of Bees," shared a degrading workplace parking lot experience.
"Pulling into my own reserved parking space and being told by a random WW that cleaning people cant park there," she wrote. "We have been talking abt this 4 years @Essence and sad not much is changing," she wrote.
Waters herself later tweeted using the hashtag. "I am a strong black woman. I cannot be intimidated, and Im not going anywhere. #BlackWomenAtWork," she wrote. O'Reilly later apologized for his remarks, calling them "dumb.
LEONARD GREENE. NEW YORK DAILY NEWS. Updated: Tuesday, March 28, 2017, 11:56 PM. Sean Spicer carries on tradition of disrespecting black women.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer got into an exchange with American Urban Radio Networks reporter April Ryan on Tuesday. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer got into an exchange with American Urban Radio Networks reporter April Ryan on Tuesday. (CNN).
I am a strong black woman, Waters tweeted. I cannot be intimidated, and Im not going anywhere. #BlackWomenAtWork.. Donna Brazille, the former chair of the Democratic National Committee, chimed in. Spicer wont acknowledge Timothy Caughmans murder as hate crime. COMBINATION PHOTO.
Bill OReilly (r.) suggested that Rep. Maxine Waters (l.) was wearing a James Brown wig. (AP). Essence Magazine editor Vanessa De Luca said the hashtag "is giving me life. De Blasio rips Spicer for not deeming Caughman slay a hate crime.
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) holds up a written objection to the Electoral College vote and calls on a senator to join in the objection during a joint session of Congress to count the electoral ballots on Jan. 6, 2017.
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) holds up a written objection to the Electoral College vote and calls on a senator to join in the objection during a joint session of Congress to count the electoral ballots on Jan. 6, 2017. (CLIFF OWEN/AP).
Spicer was publicly silent on the matter after the news conference. But the damage was already done.
Tweeter Lou Bay wrote about the person who walked into her department looking for the person in charge. Is there anyone else who I could speak with?," Bay wrote, quoting the visitor. "No, this is `my' department..
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