Making up history with the Biden White House
Journalists gleefully declared on Wednesday that the Biden administration was 'making history' by sending White House deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre to the podium to lead a press briefing. They were only half right. Jean-Pierre was indeed the first openly gay woman to lead a White House press briefing. The press corps, however, seemed much more interested in her skin color than her sexual orientation. '.@KJP46 making history as the second Black woman to ever lead a White House press briefing,' CBS News's Weijia Jiang tweeted. 'White House principal deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will make history when she steps behind the podium in the James S.
