Letters to the Editor
The Truth And The Facts As I See Them
Published Letters: 2
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That took a longer than I thought it would...
[Read the article: Imus offends]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm just going to put this out there and see what happens.
It seems that it took a VERY long time for Broadsheet to get anything posted about this story that wasn't just about "race" but talking about a couple of groups of women in college basketball's highest eschelons.
I'm openly wondering why it took so long for a comment to be made. It's Monday night now, but the story had been running since Wednesday.
This isn't a swipe. There could be several reasons why no attention had been paid before now. There was a long weekend for some people. There are certainly bigger big fish to fry in the political/global scene.
But I dare say that had this been a different group or ethnicitiy of women involved, I think that it would have been brough to the fore much more quickly.
I'm glad that it's here to be debated now, but I hope that Broadsheet and Salon in general can learn from this that they might need to be a bit quicker on the uptake when it comes to something this straight-forwardly sexist, bigoted, and racist.
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5, 6, 7 are me...dead on!
[Read the article: The K Chronicles]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's only with the older that I've gotten (I was born in 1970) that I've been able to see more and more of "Those Black Kids" like myself.
It was especially true of being called "not black enough" in middle school. I eventually realized that it was really the loudest kids that I was hearing, and not the majority of the black kids that had a problem with me. But I held my ground and I couldn't be happier.
I'll be so glad when we can make this sort of cartoon as out of date as a telegraph station. But until that time, Keef, you hit it right on the head.
Rock on!