Pulitzer Prize Winner Didn’t Realize White Racism Existed Until Black Guy Called Her Kid ‘White B*tch’ At Playground

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Masha Gessen of The New York Times (NYT) won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in opinion writing Monday for a collection of essays, the majority of which critique President Donald Trump.

A glance at Gessen’s career indicates a near-total lack of decent opinions.

Gessen, who began publicly identifying as “nonbinary” in 2020, emigrated to the United States from Russia with her parents as a child. She returned to Russia as an adult, restored her Russian citizenship, then came back to the United States in 2014 to “escape the Kremlin’s anti-gay campaign.”

Gessen arrived in Harlem with the anti-white sentiments typical of our intellectual elite.  She recalls speaking to a woman who “said she had been the target of ‘racist remarks.'”

“I cringed. This woman was white, and the remarks had been made by people who were not. And I knew there was no such thing as ‘reverse racism’: You cannot be the object of racial discrimination if you are a member of the powerful majority.” 

The next day, Gessen says, she took her daughter to a playground in Harlem, where a drunk black man called her daughter a “white bitch.”

Her daughter asked her, “Isn’t this racism?”

Gessen writes: “Somehow, my model, which denied the possibility of racism directed against the majority, could........

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