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Making up history with the Biden White House

28 May 2021

3:06 AM

28 May 2021

3:06 AM

Journalists gleefully declared on Wednesday that the Biden administration was ‘making history’ by sending White House deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre to the podium to lead a press briefing. They were only half right.

Jean-Pierre was indeed the first openly gay woman to lead a White House press briefing. The press corps, however, seemed much more interested in her skin color than her sexual orientation.

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