The head of the Los Angeles Times editorial board quit her job, crying racism and sexism because the paper declined to endorse Kamala Harris for U.S. President.
Mariel Garza, the board’s editor, resigned on Wednesday, “to make it clear that” she is “not okay with us being silent.”
“In dangerous times, honest people need to stand up. This is how I’m standing up,” she told the Columbia Journalism Review.
This is the first time the paper will not endorse the Democratic nominee for President since 2008. Garza claims the board had intended to support Harris, and that she had even drafted their endorsement.
“It makes us look craven and hypocritical, maybe even a bit sexist and racist,” she whined in her resignation letter obtained by the Review.
Plans were allegedly scrapped on October 11, when the paper’s new owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong…
