Eugene Daniels

It's racism, right?

I think it's very simple, but it also is supposed to be a lesson to people, right?

Because if people like Don Lemon, if people like Tish James, the attorney general of New York, can get in trouble with this administration, what does that mean for the other black and brown people in this country?

And that's the real question that when I talk to advocates, when I talk to activists, now when I talk to journalists as well, that's what they're worried about is that simply being black and brown in the country is dangerous.

It is chilling, right?

And it's supposed to be chilling.

But what they should take stock in is that at the end of the day, both Georgia and Don talked today about the things that they saw and did.

They don't seem deterred.

And what that tells you is that people in this country are not scared to stand up for the Constitution, right?

We are not activists as journalists, but our job is to make sure that the American experiment continues to work.

I will also say, when I was White House Correspondents Association president,

One of the things that I was shocked by at the very beginning of this was the acquiescing.

That's it.

And that has continued.

And so now what are institutions going to do as we move forward?

What decisions are going to be made at larger news organizations and independent journalists?