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April 25, 2004

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True. One might seriously question why the Jack Kelley (at USA Today) hasn't raised the serious questions about conservative christians, that Jayson Blair's escapade raised about Negros.

I was being ironic with the "negro" thing. But yeah, the issue is why Blair is a comment on the "problem" of affirmative action and Kelley is simply one bad actor.

Not very mysterious. It is because Jayson Blair was quickly promoted partially because of his race, and his boss admits that.

AFAIK, Raines said only he didn't discipline Blair sooner because he, Raines, was a white Southerner and Blair was black. And, what Blair did was essentially fake truthful stories. Yet it was held up as an example of everything wrong with affirmative action. Kelley was promoted and protected despite his obvious and much more serious fakery. What's the explanation for that? Race? Religion? Both?

The point remains: black wrongdoing is generalized, white wrongdoing is personalized. What's that spell? R-A-C-I-S-M.

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