Quote of the Day

[Content Note: Misogynoir.]

screen cap of a tweet authored by Jessica Williams reading: 'I am a black woman and I am a feminist and I am so many things. I am truly honored that people love my work. But I am not yours.'

Williams was responding to, among other things, this colossal piece of garbage written by Ester Bloom, a white woman whose entire premise is auditing Jessica Williams' assessments of her own readiness to take over as host of The Daily Show.

In a subsequent addendum, Bloom graciously grants that the choice is Williams' own, and: "The decision is entirely hers."

How magnanimous to recognize Williams' humanity and agency as a post-script.

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