I was happy to see Biden pick up the theme of Kamala Harris’s inspiring speech about how there are important things that we have in common, the things that keep us up at 3 am. Now more than ever have people complained about sleeplessness.

I was glad to see Biden invoke that sentiment because when I watched and wept at that speech at the Wiltern, @mollyesque couldn’t wait to shit on it in @TIME, saying it put her to sleep, even ending the article with an overt plug for Elizabeth Warren.

And this was how @KamalaHarris was treated in her cover story for @TIME magazine. She didn’t even get the benefit of the author sitting through a whole rally without making an open stab at her speech before plugging the white woman candidate over Harris.

So when people are surprised that Kamala Harris is suddenly more popular than Joe Biden with women and younger voters, when people wonder aloud why Harris didn’t last longer as a candidate, that’s just a sampling of the discrimination Harris endured as a Black woman candidate.

Because the reality was, this election cycle, mainstream journalists were more cavalier than I have ever seen in my life in their open support of candidates, both on Twitter and their reporting. They took the wrong lesson from FOX News and decided to shrug off impartiality.

So when our newsrooms are predominately white and male still, it might not be such a surprise that an accomplished Black woman senator with accomplishments and a base can’t get the coverage from MSNBC that a white guy smalltown mayor can.

And when white women journalists are tasked with reporting on Kamala Harris, they are prone to not know about Harris’s HBCU sorority cheers or the significance of wearing pearls. So you have careless reporting and journalists who assume they already know that it’s just screeching

So part of what keeps me awake at 3 am now is worrying if journalists like @mollyesque are going to use such a valuable platform as a @TIME cover story to take shots at an accomplished Black woman Senator just because Molly Ball wanted Elizabeth Warren.

Molly Ball has been far from incendiary or biased in her previous reporting. That’s why seeing a reporter of her stature decide that playing favorites was okay now was so disappointing. Iy spoke to how journalism standards have sunken.

I mean Molly Ball went to Lara Bazelon for quotes on Harris, who now tries to backtrack and claim she helped give Harris a leftward shove in her policies, and takes credit for sinking her primary campaign. So no, @mollyesque, you don't get the benefit of the doubt anymore.

Too many journalists really believe they are so clever they can plant bias in their readers without notice. It's cringeworthy.