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Current Event—Black Women Being The Laughing Stock
Student Submission CUNY Hunter College Spring 2025 Current Event – https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2XtmjKA/ In this week’s current event, a creator named Asia on TikTok gave her opinion on a recent incident where a reporter named Cordilia James (a Black woman) from the Wall Street Journal was covering the topic of the limited supply, high prices, and danger of consuming eggs. Within the video of Cordilia reporting, her wig was worn lower than usual, nearing her eyebrows. Social media did not hesitate to take this woman’s appearance and blast it throughout the algorithm. Most of the videos I’ve seen were with people laughing at how Cordilia wore her wigs and doing background research…