White House Reporter April Ryan Says A Black Journalist Told Her She Only Gets Called On Because She’s Black

White House Reporter April Ryan Says A Black Journalist Told Her She Only Gets Called On Because She’s Black

In her upcoming book “Under Fire: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Trump White House”, White House reporter April Ryan says that in February 2017, she had an altercation with a black conservative reporter who said April only gets called on because she’s black. She wrote,

A conservative Black female reporter had openly, in my presence, spoke the wrong words, saying, ‘The only reason you get called on is because you’re black.’

Ryan did not name the reporter in her book, but did confirm later that the woman who made the comment was Francesca Chambers, a White House reporter for the Daily Mail.

To this day, those words don’t sit well with me. At that time, I had had enough! ‘Yes!’ I said to her. ‘You ain’t sh*t!’ In front of everyone, asking her, ‘Who you think you are? You’re Black too, in case you didn’t know it!’

A spokesperson for the Daily Mail deny Ryan’s claims sharing in a statement:

It is a sad day for journalism when a reporter makes false claims against another reporter to sell a book. Ms. Ryan knows what she has written to be false and she is also fully aware of the unacceptable way that she has treated Ms. Chambers in the White House for the past two years.’