I think that for a long time, public facing creatives of color were expected to answer those questions while also performing the extra work of fixing the places. There're so many institutions across all kinds of industries where the very idea of d e i just means more work for the women and people of color and queer people. I'm glad in every conversation that people still think to ask the questions. But there also needs to be a modicum of like, self preservation. It throws me off my game. Ca, scenario, i come out looking like the angry black man, ind stereotyped. Impiar is actually fine either way.
Sam Sanders is the former host of NPR’s It’s Been a Minute. He hosts Vulture’s Into It, which launched last week.
“I don’t think I ever wanted a career where I was doing the same thing for 30 years. I think that, editorially, I had become someone who was really contemplating what kind of capital-j journalist I wanted to be, want to be, and I was questioning a lot of rules and the structure of what we think journalism is supposed to be, and I think I needed to be away from a legacy institution like NPR, at least for a spell, to work that out.”
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