The way black people are being questioned incessantly about Trump's racist trope against VP Harris

...by black and white journalists and reporters, alike, who want to make others accountable to it, as well, putting it in our faces as if they're insisting, themselves, that black people need and deserve to hear these things and express their feelings about it to reporters in the context of what a racist believes.

It wasn't enough for them to try & make VP Harris take responsibility for Trump's racist trope, instead of just confronting him on it. Or, taking responsibility themselves and telling viewers what's wrong about asking a black woman to respond to someone questioning her blackness.

Now they're asking every black person they can interview about it; not from any premise of theirs that it's wrong, but that Kamala Harris had some obligation to take heed of a racist taunt intended to be a dogwhistle for other racists who might have some self-conflict or animosity to Kamala Harris's skin color.

I initially thought it might be a function of the ignorance and inner bigotry of the white journos who were pressing this, but seeing black reporters take the same line, I think it's something more than pack journalism here.

The press is more than comfortable taking every racist and bigoted remark and expression out of Trump's mouth and repeating it to us without qualification as if it's some sort of conundrum on how to react and respond.

You don't see headlines that read, 'Donald Trump used a racist trope,' rather, you get headlines merely repeating the slur, offering it up to viewers like one of those spectators you see grinning at the camera in old photos of lynchings.

They not only want us to take responsibility for those, as they confront us with them verbatim without rebuke, they want black people to take charge of the press' own responsibility to clearly oppose those expressions of hatred.

Many in the media are primarily engaged in serving as data mules for the Trump campaign, repeating his charges verbatim, without qualification, as if they don't know any better - especially issues of race as related to Kamala Harris in this campaign.

They're waiting for her to cast her blackness in the terms Donald Trump set, not her own heritage which she amply described in her nomination acceptance address at the convention.

The media wants the VP to star in the racist shitshow Trump has cast for them. They're so eager for that performance they've taken to trying to get others to act out their cynical, banal narrative on her behalf.

THEY'RE RIGHT THERE, on the air to refute or denounce any of it, but they refuse to. All they're interested in is making the Democratic candidate accountable for each and every projection of theirs - and every projection is a parrot of Trump's sordid rhetoric.