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No, you're right. Its wrong of me to lump us all together. I should say, then, that any black editor who would allow this to hit the press on his watch should be ashamed of himself.

It's not really about insecurity. It's about dignity and respect for your people. It's okay to occasionally poke fun at your people if society overwhelmingly holds more POSITIVE images and sentiments about your race (as it is for Whites and Asians). But when negative stereotypes about your people are the RULE and not the exception, then it should give you pause. You don't pile on when your people have been beat down. You lift them up.




Wrong sir. Any black editor should realize that his first obligation is to his paper, and that doing his job well is the best way he can lift up "his people". He should also realize that he has no more obligation to uphold the dignity of the black race than he does the dignity of any other race. It's that sort of "your people... your race" bullshit that white supremacists like to sling. And the sad part is, they're right. If blacks, or any other race, are going to segregate themselves from the rest of humanity and proclaim their primary allegiance to "their race", then one certainly can't fault any other group for following suit. The bottom line is, the Post should do what's in the best interest of the Post, and any editor that would be willing to let his paper take a back seat to his or her personal agenda, isn't worth a good goddamn. You wanna be a social revolutionary... go be a social revolutionary. God speed. But if you wanna be a newspaper editor, a politician, a lawyer, or the squeegee guy on east 23rd [ ok, that's me ], be willing to step up, or go do something else.
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