A former ABC anchor said he attempted suicide after being exposed to hazing, bullying and racism at the US news giant, all after another, unnamed Black correspondent welcomed him to “Mickey’s plantation” – a comparison of the network’s owner, Disney, to a slave-owning estate in the old American south.
“The sense I got from them was that it was in reference to veiled racism, and there was some truth to what was behind it,” Kendis Gibson told Page Six, a celebrity news and gossip site from the Murdoch-owned New York Post.
