Posted on 10/01/2020 3:00:46 PM PDT by rintintin
Our sister paper Sunday published a heartfelt apology for its past unconscious bias regarding racial inequality. It’s an important moment of recognition for the Los Angeles Times, whose standing as a liberal voice has been clouded by the prejudices of its past and opportunities it has missed to address inequities that continue to this day.
America is built on great ideals and great failings; our institutions, our traditions and our leaders are complicit in the good and the bad. The long accounting in the Times made that clear Sunday. The collective guilt of the community sits heavily in its leading institutions.
The Union-Tribune is no exception. This paper’s predecessors abandoned their principles, standing by as Kumeyaay people were forced off their land; supported the internment of the Japanese during World War II; did too little to confront racism, redlining and exploitation through much of the 20th century. The victims should be well known to every San Diegan; in our town, those who were marginalized, disadvantaged and bullied by American society were too often left unprotected by — and were sometimes targeted by — the San Diego Union and Tribune.
The LGBTQ community, immigrants, Latinos, Blacks, Asians and other people of color, women, the poor, the powerless. Across the decades, few outside the White male establishment have not been dismissed or disadvantaged at one time or another by the Union-Tribune.
These were not the trespasses of everyone, but of the powerful and the privileged. Throughout our history, like our peers in Los Angeles and across the industry, the Union-Tribune served the interests of the establishment.
(Excerpt) Read more at sandiegouniontribune.com ...
If you feel that bad, stand up, slit your wrists and be the better person. There is only one atonement for such self loathing, and that is suicide. Please proceed without delay.
“Across the decades, few outside the White male establishment have not been dismissed or disadvantaged at one time or another by the Union-Tribune.”
And we’ll be working triple overtime to make sure Whitey pays, good and hard, from now on.
I hope someone hastily sets up a GoFundMe.
They should be apologizing to religious institutions and Americans who hold traditional views.
I was delayed employment at Pacific Telephone because they told me they had to hire their quota of minorities first. So I waited a year after coming out of the military. I had three years of telecom background, and am half white and half Mexican, but it didn’t meet the requirements. So when people tell me they were disadvantaged because of race, I have to say yes I was, because it was racism against me. I also was passed up for promotions several times within Pacific Bell and minorities were offered the positions first. So, when they come up with “reparations’ I have to say BS. Minorities have had so many opportunities and have been hired and promoted faster than their peers on color alone. This whole thing is such garbage.
Where’s the frigging barf alert????
Kneel!
Apologize!
Pay!
Repeat!
Collective guilt...it’s a communist thing.
- with rights, money, possessions, homes, and lives -
Who the hell are the Kumeyaay people? Are they related to the Heckawis?
Are they going to spank themselves on live TV?
In the 1960’s,my friends worked in Detroit..They are both white and they said when you got sick ,the company would send around one of their people to check up on you..When they started hiring blacks,that stopped.....Real fast......
Babylon Bee material.
Turn over your land back to the Kumeyaay.
Only reason you supposedly “own” it is because them damn dumb white males and their deeds. Just a piece of paper!
The Injuns, er, “Indigenous People” never had those. They just put down a camp and slit the throats of anyone who tried to get near it. Let’s go back to that!
Know who wins that one?
We’re not gonna tell ya.
LMFAO!
I thought the Chinese Cultural Revolution had ended with Chairman Mao’s demise .... looks like it still lives in Red California .... public confessions, coerced self flagellation, shots to the back of the head, etc. coming soon to a town near you.
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