MSNBC host and PBS pundit Jonathan Capehart has a new memoir out. It’s titled Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man’s Search for Home. It sounds like the first lesson is this: a “Black Man” gets to dictate history and no one is allowed to offer a “reality check” or else they’re “robbing his humanity.”
Capehart is still a Washington Post columnist, but he reveals in his terribly troubled tome that he quit the Post editorial board in 2023 over his colleague Karen Tumulty arguing it was “hyperbolic” for President Biden to describe the Republicans passing Georgia’s election reform law as “Jim Crow 2.0.”
When he read this H-word in the Post, “I was a tornado of emotions, eye-popping rage, and disbelief. I couldn’t stay.” Beware the tornado of rage when Republicans aren’t comparable to the ardent Democrats who were the Ku…