“This happens to black women everyday at work,” said Missouri-based activist Brittany Packnett, who kicked off the hashtag #BlackWomenAtWork after Spicer and O’Reilly’s offending remarks.
“Share your Maxine and April moments, so people don't think this is rare.”
“Every black woman meets at least 3 @oreillyfactor's and 5 @seanspicer's a day.#BlackWomenAtWork” she tweeted moments later. “When I started #BlackWomenAtWork today I sadly knew it would trend. Not because I'm special. Because I know how we get treated.”
The response was swift and unrelenting, with Rep. Waters herself being among the first to take a jab at O'Reilly and Spicer.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer got into an exchange with American Urban Radio Networks reporter April Ryan on Tuesday.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer got into an exchange with American Urban Radio Networks reporter April Ryan on Tuesday. (CNN)
"I am a strong black woman," Waters tweeted. "I cannot be intimidated, and I'm not going anywhere. #BlackWomenAtWork."
Donna Brazille, the former chair of the Democratic National Committee, chimed in.
“#BlackWomenAtWork face the double bind of gender and race,” Brazille wrote.
Film director Gina Prince-Bythewood, who directed “Love and Basketball” and “The Secret Life of Bees,” shared a degrading workplace parking lot experience.
“Pulling into my own reserved parking space and being told by a random WW that cleaning people can't park there,” she wrote.
Essence Magazine editor Vanessa De Luca said the hashtag “is giving me life.”
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“We have been talking abt this 4 years @Essence and sad not much is changing,” she wrote.
Waters herself later tweeted using the hashtag.
“I am a strong black woman. I cannot be intimidated, and I'm not going anywhere. #BlackWomenAtWork,” she wrote.
O’Reilly later apologized for his remarks, calling them “dumb.”
Spicer was publicly silent on the matter after the news conference.
But the damage was already done.
Tweeter Lou Bay wrote about the person who walked into her department looking for the person in charge.
"Is there anyone else who I could speak with?,” Bay wrote, quoting the visitor. “No, this is `my’ department."
/NY Daily news/
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