By Daryl Hannah
The New York Times either doesn’t get it or doesn’t care. Just weeks after publishing a poorly balanced profile of Michael Brown, the 18-year-old fatally shot by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson in July, the paper is again facing a national outcry from readers who are furious over the paper’s use of racial epithets to describe African-American women.
A Sunday profile of television writer and producer Shonda Rhimes by Times Culture Critic Alessandra Stanley opened with “When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called ‘How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman'” and ended with an angry-black-woman joke linking Rhimes and First Lady Michelle Obama. In between was a mix of compliments and slights about Rhimes’ ability to navigate the overwhelmingly white and patriarchal media industry.
