Link to Clarion-Ledger article about the same incident
Ole Miss student Ronald Odom, who took the ad from New Century via phone, said he saw it before the newspaper was printed, but he didn't read it because he didn't know it was his ad. The ad says American Renaissance.
"It was purely an accident. Our screening should have been tighter," the 21-year old senior journalism major said. "Being an African American, I appreciate the progress the university has made. It has done a great job in improving race relations and morale around campus."
Note: I do not share the views of the American Renaissance Foundation. I just think it is funny that a liberal student newspaper ran this racist ad b/c the paper's slacker staff was too lazy to read their ad copy before sending it to press.
(((MS PING)))
What views are those?
If Jesse Jackson or some other race-baiting black "leader" were to take out a similar ad, pointing out how illegal immigration is destroying black people's political power, would it be considered racist?
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Hard to look at just the picture without looking for some 'sense' to it; so cannot imagine this was totally ignored.. .
. . .and since diversity IS a Libs favored assumption; would bet that at the least, the first few lines were read; and no 'red flag' went up. . .
The authors of this ad expressed themselves very badly...whatever their aims...and they do seem racist. The fact that whites will be a minority in the US one day is simple fact, however, no matter what your point of view is. If we don't manage to blow ourselves to kingdom come, generations from now we'll probably all be brownish/yellow.
This is racist?
Beam me up Scotty. No intelligent life here.
Looks like someone was slacking to me. What a ridiculous ad.
The latter generations mixed by ethnic heritages: Italians with Irish, Greek with Polish, all sorts of people today can not say with certain that they are pure anything.
The future generations do to different hertiages currently immigrating legally and illegally, will be all sorts of mixed colors and races. Hispanic with white, black with white, asian with hispanic, etc, etc, etc.
My thoughts don't mean I am for forced diversity, but peoples will eventually mix cultures. I'm all for it as long it's an American culture, which is the real problem today with celebrating diversity which means changing Americans culture by force.
Wow, the ad ran, yet American Renaissance got their money back. What a deal!
"I just think it is funny that a liberal student newspaper ran this racist ad b/c the paper's slacker staff was too lazy to read their ad copy before sending it to press."
Funny...but typical. ;o)
and what exactly does THAT have to to with printing it?
The ad was certainly not politically correct.
And since the goal of political correctness is to inhibit speech, limit discussion topics, and foist upon everyone an irrational, emotional self-limiting vernacular, then the ad has to go.
"Our diversity is our strength." "We are a multicultural society." And don't you dare question it.
PC über alles!
I graduated from Ole Miss in 2001. Regardless of the content of the add the Daily Pravda is a left wing rag, with shotty writing and research.
So the ad runs, and they get their money back. Thus, the ad ran for free.
And it ran again in this article, plus gets lots of publicity.
Pretty smooth.