To some, it seems Trump cannot even get a taskforce right. As we see an uptick in the Coronavirus outbreak with reported death tolls up to 250 this morning, CNN is throwing out irresponsible journalism once again. This time, in a tweet stating Trump’s taskforce is “too white”.

Coronavirus task force another example of Trump administration's lack of diversity | Analysis https://t.co/bs7L1rUZzc pic.twitter.com/MzzoslqZpT

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 30, 2020

Meanwhile, across our world:

The World Heath Organization has confidence in China to control this outbreak? Really? Color some of us skeptical here. But the REAL skepticism comes from our friends at CNN.

Who are these experts? They’re largely the same sorts of white men (and a couple women on the sidelines) who’ve dominated the Trump administration from the very beginning.

By contrast, former President Barack Obama’s circle of advisers in the face of the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa was hardly so monochromatic. Neither was it so abysmal in terms of gender diversity. “-Brandon Tensley, CNN

It’s “abysmal”, says Tensley. You know what is abysmal? When a MAN sees a picture of said Taskforce and assumes the WOMEN in the photo are just “sitting on the sidelines”. Tensley knows this, how?

Yes! I refuse to have my health protected by a white man, if you can’t offer solutions developed by black trans women, then let me die.

— Jeanie D’Amico (@JDreamer731) January 31, 2020

Tensley’s taskforce “analysis” of this consists of two side-by-side photos of Trump’s versus Obama’s task forces. I mean, personally, if a President sits around and worries about the diversity of a task force before employing it to control a deadly epidemic, we have problems. The fact that we have people who are reporting on this in such a slanted and irresponsible way indicates the level we are at as a country. If someone is in a hospital bed at the mercy of health professionals to save his life, do you really think he cares about skin color or gender? I’m willing to bet this is a resounding “no”. I mean, do people walk out of doctor’s offices and hospital emergency rooms if, after doing a brief scan, they do not meet their own personal diversity quotas?

Don't get upset at @TheBabylonBee when you guys make their satire believable. pic.twitter.com/RCPZNwdI0g

— Tara Lynn Thompson (@TaraLynnSaid) January 31, 2020

In Tensley’s world that sits within the isolation booth of the liberal bubble, intersectionalism and diversity is more important than choosing the best people to solve the problem. Tensley, who is African American, overlooks the large pool of white affluence that makes up the Democratic Presidential hopefuls. He ignores the boards of directors made of largely white men who sit in the executive office of his own media outlet and write his checks. If we look at CNN, the media train wreck is far from the most diverse. And, sadly, they’re not doing the African-American population any favors with their boy, Don Lemon. Tensley ignores the large editorial boards of white men and women who claim to check their privilege on the daily (and they write about this) but they still sit on editorial boards. They still write about what would be best in a world of diversity and how we Americans can be better to our marginalized minorities. They sit upon their laurels and tell us all how we need to be better people yet we don’t see anyone there giving up their jobs in these cushy positions because they need to step aside and make way for a more diverse group, do we? Of course not.

But in the name of the Coronavirus and intersectional politics, by all means, Trump’s taskforce of white men (with girls on the side) need to step aside for a more inclusive group to control the outbreak. Shall we pluck the drag queen from Kindergarten story hour and the non-binary, one-legged lesbian and stick them on the force instead? In all consideration, at this point, all of this woke is going to leave us for dead.

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