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‘You good, CBS News?’ Tim Scott finds hidden gem about DEI expert brought in to speak to CBS staff about racial firestorm

October 9, 2024 | | Print Article

A DEI expert who was set to lead a CBS News staff meeting after a racial firestorm resulting from an anchor’s tough questioning of a notorious race hustler has been shelved as a result of his social media activity.

The network bosses tabbed self-proclaimed “mental health expert DEI strategist and trauma trainer” Dr. Donald Grant to head up a struggle session after employees went berserk over “CBS Mornings” host Tony Dokoupil’s tough interview with author Ta-Nehisi Coates who was pimping his new book likening Gaza to the Jim Crow days.

Coates didn’t get the usual deferential treatment that the media gives to the purveyors of racial grievance and called him out on-air over his anti-Israel sentiment and minimizing the terrorist threat to the Jewish nation. The interview sparked the usual cries of racism, compelling CBS to throw its own employee under the bus and invite Dr. Grant to speak to staffers whose feelings were hurt.

But there is one problem as there often is with the purveyors of DEI, Grant himself is a flaming racist, and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), who was a target of his racism, brought attention to that rather significant detail.

The South Carolina Republican shared a social media post from Grant with a negative and very racist depiction of him captioned “Uncle Tim’s Cabin” portraying the former GOP presidential candidate on the cover of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s famous 1852 novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” which would seem to indicate a lack of due diligence on the part of CBS management.

X uses shared their takes on the latest CBS public relations fiasco.

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The network reportedly got the message and has now backed away from its plans to have Grant address the staff.

“CBS News scrapped plan to include Dr. Donald Grant in this morning’s staff meeting about Dokoupil-Coates interview, and opted to hold multiple meetings with smaller groups (presumably to help prevent leaks),” Dylan Byers of Puck News posted to X.

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“After a review of our coverage, including the interview, it’s clear that there are times we have not met our editorial standards,” CBS News President of Editorial and News Gathering Adrienne Roark said, according to the New York Times. “This has been addressed, and it will continue to be in the future.”

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