https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna3679328

"I think it's absurd to tie this to race," she said. "Had it been a woman, people wouldn't be saying, 'It was because she's a woman.' There are thousands and thousands of black journalists who've never done anything like this. Hundreds of them have worked at The New York Times and have never done anything like it. It's a systemic problem. You don't get away with those things unless some of your editors are derelict. These are things that do not happen in newsrooms."

Yet they do, not only in newsrooms, but on the sidelines as well.