City Mayor Eric Adams came under fire this week when it appeared as if he was suggesting there were too many white reporters covering him in the city’s press corps.
Fox News presenter Harris Faulkner reacted angrily to this, accusing Adams of “playing the racial card.”
“How many Blacks are in the editorial boards? How many Blacks determine how these stories are being written? How many Asians? How many east Indians? How many South Asians?”
“Diversify your newsrooms so I can look out and see people who look like me,” Adams insisted. He added that “if this is how this is going to be, I am just going to come in and do my announcements and bounce.
“How Black, by the way, do you have to be?” demanded the Fox News host, who is herself African American.
Faulkner then questioned if Joe Biden was inspiring Adams, saying that “the president shows up and suddenly I am not taking questions, and the media is racist. Or not Black enough. Whatever he is saying.”
“He is dropping the race card,” she continued. “He is pointing the fingers at newsrooms, and this is not enough. You know what? You are not enough. Sit down and take some questions.”
