Critics slammed New York Journal for cropping black folks out of a photograph of a pro-Trump celebration it ran on its cowl this week — with the story inside claiming that the gang was nearly completely white.
The journal’s cowl story this week, titled “The Cruel Kids’ Table” and penned by Brock Colyar, claims that “almost everyone” on the Trump inauguration celebration was “white” and failed to say that the celebration’s host was black.
The duvet picture reveals a room stuffed with white revelers at a TikTok-sponsored celebration known as the “Power 30 Awards” on the eve of the inauguration, however conservative commentator Christopher Barnard on X posted the complete photograph which accompanied the story contained in the journal and revealed quite a few black attendees.
partygoers. New York Journal
“Almost everyone is white,” Colyar wrote, adopted by a descriptive flourish in regards to the shindig. “The men look like Pete Hegseth, in bow ties and black suits, with clean-shaven faces. The women are almost all out of their league.”
“This is insane,” GOP Youth Advisory Council co-chair CJ Pearson shot again on X Monday. “I hosted this event and @NYMag intentionally left me out of their story because it would have undermined their narrative that MAGA is some racist cult.”
Pearson, who hosted the occasion and is black, identified that different black Republicans had been additionally there, and posted a photograph of him with one other black attendee.
He added: “.@NYMag accused me of hosting a white-only inauguration rager. I guess none of these black people got the memo?”
Different black attendees included former Georgia state Rep. Vernon Jones, rapper Waka Flocka Flame and PragerU’s Xaviaer DuRousseau, amongst others.
Rob Smith, a black political commentator and guide at Proper Flip Methods, chimed in: “I was at this party as were MANY other Conservative media influencers who are Black, Latino, Asian, etc.”
Smith continued: “@NYMag used a whites only photo to push the media narrative that diverse Republicans don’t exist and weren’t welcome. You don’t hate the media enough.”
black attendees at a pro-Trump celebration he hosted, together with
Waka Flocka Flame (proper). X/@thecjpearson
Though the New York Journal piece did quote DuRousseau, it didn’t declare his race, and solely described him as a “28-year-old conservative influencer.”
Later within the story, Colyar goes to the All American Inaugural Ball, and describes it as a “more familiar scene of MAGA commoners.”
Colyar interviews an “older woman in an updo and a silver sequined gown,” who asks the journalist: “Have you noticed the entire room is white?”’”
A New York Journal spokesperson instructed The Submit: “The magazine’s most recent cover story explores the new class of conservatives taking Washington by storm, through the lens of inauguration weekend. The cover was cropped to the center of a picture that was published in full online, and we believe both the cover and story provide an accurate impression of the weekend.”
