The Undeniable Role of Race in the #MeToo Era

Male politicians, media elites and titans of industry are facing a variety of consequences for waves of sexual assault and harassment allegations. Charlie Rose is one of those men, fired from CBS and PBS due to complaints dating back decades.

WNYC's Rebecca Carroll, editor for special projects, started her career at the Charlie Rose Show as a writer, then producer in 1997. She said the environment of intimidation she experienced reveals as much about structural racism as it does sexism.

"This is so emblematic of all of these kinds of circumstances where these white male predators have created these microcosms of, sort of, the country at large, which is systemically racist, systemically patriarchal," Carroll told Jami Floyd.

In a statement responding to WNYC, PBS said it "expects all the producers we work with to provide a workplace where people feel safe and treated with dignity and respect."