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Wendy Bell: Pittsburgh’s Racist Poster Girl
The 412 Has a Problem. Her Name is Wendy.
A March 29, 2021 article in Pittsburgh’s most prominent newspaper, the Post-Gazette, notes that the western Pennsylvania city is a “hub” for white supremacists. If Pittsburgh shelters white supremacy, it will come as no surprise to many of its residents that local radio host Wendy Bell is their de facto queen.
At one point in her career, Bell was affiliated with both KDKA-TV and KDKA Radio. Prior to her affiliation with KDKA, she worked for Pittsburgh station WTAE-TV but was dismissed from that station after racist comments on her personal Facebook page.
Her post was deleted, but if you’re curious, there was a brutal shooting in one of Pittsburgh’s poorer neighborhoods. Of the shooters she wrote:
“You needn’t be a criminal profiler to draw a mental sketch of the killers who broke so many hearts two weeks ago Wednesday, They are young black men, likely in their teens or in their early 20s. They have multiple siblings from multiple fathers and their mothers work multiple jobs. These boys have been in the system before. They’ve grown up there. They know the police. They’ve been arrested.”
She had been to a local restaurant with her husband and sons shortly after the shooting. She’d engaged with a young…
