I Don’t Want to Fear Becoming a Journalist

I’m in high school now, but I’m scared of the vitriol I’ll face as a Black man covering the news

Rainier Harris
GEN
Published in
4 min readFeb 1, 2021

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Former President Donald Trump branded the news media the “enemy of the people” on dozens of occasions during his time in office, whether to castigate a journalist on Twitter for unfavorable press coverage or to incite chants of “CNN…

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