Harris-Perry to leave show at MSNBC

Melissa Harris-Perry will not go back to hosting her show on MSNBC, The Associated Press reported on Sunday.

Harris-Perry had previously announced she would not host her MSNBC show this weekend after presidential coverage repeatedly pre-empted her, The New York Times reported.

{mosads}“I will not be used as a tool for their purposes,” Harris-Perry wrote in an email obtained by the Times.

“I am not a token, mammy or little brown bobble head. I am not owned by [NBC News chairman Andrew] Lack, [MSNBC President Phil] Griffin or MSNBC. I love our show. I want it back.”

Last week, Perry said MSNBC should stand up and say if it no longer wants her show on the air.

“It is perfectly fine, 100 percent reasonable and perfectly acceptable for MSNBC to decide they no longer want the M.H.P. show,” said Harris-Perry, who has hosted the show since 2012. “But they should say that. They should cancel the show; they should stand up.

“And maybe it would be rewarded with huge ratings, but they shouldn’t kill us by attrition and take us off the air without telling anybody, including us. That for me is what’s painful and difficult.”