Media College Paper Apologizes
posted by on February 13 at 11:51 AM
The student paper at Seattle Central Community College has dedicated much of its newest issue to the controversy over a recent op-ed that linked black culture with black crime. (See “White on Black” from last week.) The City Collegian’s editor in chief apologizes for not involving enough people in the process of vetting the article but stops short of saying the piece shouldn’t have run. Janell Hartman writes, “Because of my decision to run an article on a sensitive topic without wider consultation, numerous readers whom we aim to serve felt disrespected and offended. The reputation of our newspaper was damaged.”
The issue also includes two pages of letters and guest columns responding to Lee Myers’s spirited treatise on why blacks should stop complaining about inequality and stop committing crime. Unfortunately, the paper’s website hasn’t been updated since October 2006, so I can’t provide a link.
Apologize.
God I miss that place sometimes: that paper has managed to stir up more controversy, and by such honest, insightful debate, then, say, the joke of a student publication that is The Daily at the UW.
Go SCCC!
Now if a student had written an editorial saying Jews were the driving force on the was in Iraq, these same students would be defending it under free speech. In college it's not what you say, but who you say it to. Many Black Student Union's will invite black racists, for example Louis Farrakaun, and proudly call it free speech. Try to have a white speaker with the same attitudes towards blacks- would never happen. At UW there was violence when the Republican group openly questioned affirmative action. Not only aren't you allowed to question affirmative acton, you aren't even allowed to speak of theintimiadtion that will insure if you do. Some groups have more freedom than others by using their anger to overthrow freedom of speech. I'm white, but don't feel entitled to do the same when I'm offended.
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