White Anchors Should Know Not to Use “My Nizzle”
4 min readMar 29, 2023
Barbie Bassett may have meant no harm by her now viral mistake, but she should have known better by now.
In 2022, Barbie Bassett, an anchor for the NBC affiliate WLBT in Jackson, Mississippi, issued an apology after referring to a Black reporter’s “grandmammy” while on air.
“But Carmen … girl … sis,” Bassett said in the on air comments that drew…
