Alternative newspaper magnate gets away with using the "n" word

GOPUSA ^ | April 13, 2008 | Rachel Alexander

[az4vlad]

Arizona will never shake its reputation as a backwards, redneck state with vestiges of racism as long as incidents like this are just swept under the rug. A week ago, the most powerful owner/publisher/editor of left wing newsweeklies in the country, Michael Lacey, made a racist remark, "my n****" at an awards dinner in Phoenix on the anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination. The mainstream media ignored it.

Contrast this with talk show host Don Imus's racist remarks. Imus was admonished by every major network for days, until he was eventually fired.

The difference is that Lacey champions far left causes, regularly attacking conservative politicians in his newspapers. Many of the things written about them - such as (ironically) labeling Sheriff Joe Arpaio a racist - aren't true. Lacey's newspapers are filled with racist remarks, like referring to white rap artists as "wiggers." But the so-called mainstream media won't call out Lacey on racism and smears, because they're more concerned with taking down conservative politicians using any means possible, however unethical.

The blogosphere hasn't remained silent however. Nationally respected bloggers Melissa Pehle and Terresa Monroe-Hamilton have written about it. A campaign has been started by political blogs in Arizona to force Lacey to resign. A fellow newsweekly publisher, Paul Curci of the Philadelphia City Paper, wrote a letter to the editor of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies expressing his disgust. If the bloggers are able to force Lacey to step down, it will be an indication that the the mainstream media has finally lost its choke hold over the news.

Reverend Oscar Tillman, president of the Maricopa County NAACP, was upset about the remark, particularly since the NAACP was hosting a Freedom Fund dinner in Phoenix with the CEO and President of NAACP coming into town as speaker. He was infuriated considering the NAACP had ceremoniously "buried" the "n" word last year. Tillman told the Arizona Capitol Times Yellow Sheet, “I want to hear him say beyond an apology what he’s willing to do.”

It is sad that someone in this high-level position of power feels it's ok to talk so disrespectfully about African-Americans. And the liberal media's refusal to cover the story just proves what conservatives have been saying for years - the Democrat Party houses more racists than the Republican Party.

[Dahoser]

Arizona will never shake its reputation as a backwards, redneck state with vestiges of racism as long as incidents like this are just swept under the rug. A week ago, the most powerful owner/publisher/editor of left wing newsweeklies in the country, Michael Lacey, made a racist remark, "my n****" at an awards dinner in Phoenix on the anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination. The mainstream media ignored it.

When did rednecks become leftwingers?

[Red Badger]

QUITE A WHILE AGO.....

[wardaddy]

Arizona will never shake its reputation as a backwards, redneck state with vestiges of racism as long as incidents like this are just swept under the rug.

If it's wrong to say ni$$er to describe blacks then why is it not just as wrong to disparage whites with the term rednecks?

[RC2]

Gettin a little tired of this crap. The blacks can use that word but no one else can? Sorry folks....don’t work that way.

[AU72]

In the movie Pulp Fiction a character played by Tarrintino used the term “Dead N*** Storage” a few times and it didn’t seem to harm his career.

[chesley]

Here's an idea. Instead of contributing any money to the race-racketeers, why not contribute a substantial sum to one of the greatest institutions for improving the lives of black Americans in the world? The United States military.

[Def Conservative]

As a black man, I’m never offended by the word.

Partly because I grew up with the “sticks and bones” motto and partly because I use the word myself.

I refuse to abide by a speech code from the NAACP, an organization that still uses the word colored in its name.

I believe its pointless for those to try to stop people from using it. You might get the snobby black liberals to stop saying the word, but they will never get the majority of us to stop—it’s as common as “the, and or it.” It’s just like any other curse word that one uses among friends, it’s just some white people have let certain black people attach a certain stigma to the word that just doesn’t attach any more.

[Def Conservative]

Exactly.

About time some white people stand up to black double standards.

[Riverman94610]

I am afraid it DOES work that way.I also have problems with blacks calling other blacks that word but when they do it among themselves it is like”in the family”,so to speak.For an outsider to say it,the word takes on another symbolic meaning and thus is off limits.
And this Lacey character?What a joke.I guess he thought he was so”down”in the black community that he would get a pass for the word.Not hardly.At least in the ghettoes I have been in!

[Pietro]

"Gettin a little tired of this crap"

I'm getting really tierd of the sophists in the msm that talk down to people and assume their superiority as a birth right.

[AnalogReigns]

When did rednecks become leftwingers?

Just remember, every politician of the old Confederacy was a devout Democrat.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Of course. This is an illustration of the double standard.