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She was the first black woman hired by NBC’s D.C. bureau, and became an ABC anchor. Her new book chronicles a career marred by racist and sexist attacks…

Her troubles began at NBC in 1974 when she became the first black woman to work in the Washington bureau. After a long stint when she couldn’t get on the air, word got back to Simpson that she was deemed “lazy.” “To me that was a racial epithet,” she writes. “Black people—to ignorant people—don’t want to work, are stupid, and unqualified.” After threatening to quit—and go public about the racial and gender reasons—Simpson was suddenly back on "NBC Nightly News." Two years later, a drunken NBC producer—the likely culprit for her earlier problems—told her at the Republican convention: “You think because you’re black and you’re a woman you can get anything you want. And you slut, you don’t deserve it.” Searing words that would affect anyone’s outlook on life, and yet, Simpson has to admit that she has also benefited from affirmative action…

Despite the book’s strong racial theme, Simpson says the sexual harassment was actually worse, describing male colleagues brushing against her breasts, pulling down a dress zipper, commenting on her butt or saying, in one case, “The way you’re looking I could f*ck you on the spot.”

http://nation.foxnews.com/racism/201...ttacks-nbc-abc

Een leven vol racisme .