'I do feel like, when I walk into a room, I'm not just walking in as myself,” Jones said. “I'm walking in as my grandmother who rooted for me. I'm walking in as my ancestor's wildest dreams.” NBCBLKIgnite
“I remember when I was in Philadelphia, girls would say, ‘You had on yellow today, so then I asked my mom, can I wear yellow?” Jones remembered. “You know, it seems so simple when you're talking about politics and all these important things. But for me, like, the little girl who says, ‘I could do that,’ I want to be that for her [because] I didn't have a lot of that growing up. So it's not lost to me.
Beyond the difficulty of the job itself, “[there’s] the stress that people don't see,” Jones said. “They think we just come in and put on some makeup and there's pressure there.” She said that she feels there’s an additional, different kind of pressure on black women.“Being an African-American woman doing what I do, I feel a sense of responsibility that there's pressure on me that I didn't realize I had,” Jones told Brzezinski.
As a child growing up in Wichita, Kansas, Jones spent a lot of time with her maternal grandmother, who encouraged her dream of becoming a news anchor.
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