These certainly are some words.

I mean, I hoped leaders at The Athletic were committed to women’s hoops and the black women covering it but I was wrong.

I’d hoped leaders at The Athletic would’ve communicated anything at all, clear, concise or otherwise, but I was wrong.

1/7 https://twitter.com/amather/status/1267135789223170048

I’d hoped leaders at The Athletic would have shown even a crumb of concern for the victims of its broken hiring system that in one drop of the ax to freelancers left its WNBA vertical with no black women journalists ... but I was wrong.

2/ 7

It’s easy to name-drop a rapper three times to come up in searches. It’s not so easy to make sure your own house, The Athletic, is in order.

As I wrote yesterday, we didn’t get here overnight:

3/ 7

There is a path littered with microaggressions, biases, discriminatory practices including in hiring (not one black woman covering the WNBA was a full-time employee) etc. that were met with silence.

Silence got us here.

4/ 7

Continued silence over lack of diversity at The Athletic and the mishandling of its “temporary pause” that erased the voices of several black women journalists from its pages is part of the problem.

Silence got us here.

5/ 7

Continued silence is a statement of your commitment to the status quo and an admission that black women are so unimportant to you that having the company mouthpiece lie in the media seemed like a good idea.

https://britnidlc.substack.com/p/the-athletic-gave-a-comment-about

6/ 7

Name-dropping Killer Mike while having this go on under your watch at The Athletic is not a good look, @amather.

https://britnidlc.substack.com/p/what-happened-to-the-athletics-wnba

Your failure to examine issues in your house and rise above silence is part of the problem.

7/7