Were The CBS Layoffs Race Based? (Patreon)

When Paramount, the parent company of CBS imposed company wide layoffs, there was certainly a pattern that people noticed.

Many of those laid off by the company were people of color.

The co-host of CBS Saturday Morning, Michelle Miller was one of the on air talent at CBS News who was told her job was being cut. Miller was born to a Black father and a light-skinned Latina mother.

Veteran CBS News Producer Trey Sherman was also cut and posted a video saying that every Producer in his area that was laid off was a person of color and every person being reassigned is White.

CBS News is closing its Johannesburg bureau in South Africa.

At the CBS O&O WJZ in Baltimore, the station had five meteorologists on staff. When the cuts came down, the station got rid of Chief Meteorologist Derek Beasley, who happens to be Black.

But, that is not all at WJZ. The station also laid off a Web Producer, a Morning Anchor and a person in Creative Services. A station staffer tells FTVLive that all of those people are Black. "The optics are not good," said the staffer to FTVLive.

We have heard from several people who work at CBS and they feel like the people of color were certainly the target in this first round of cuts.

If that is true or not, the perception of many CBS employees is that many of the cuts are raced based.