From the publisher of The Inquirer: An apology to Black Philadelphians and journalists

Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | 02/15/2022 | Elizabeth H. Hughes

[Kid Shelleen]

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First printed just three months after Andrew Jackson was inaugurated president, The Inquirer has been a chronicler of life in the city for almost two centuries, and any historic assessment would doubtless find many more faults.

An acknowledgment of our failings is not sufficient. We also apologize — to the Black residents and communities of Philadelphia, to the Black journalists of The Inquirer past and present, and to other communities and people whom we have also neglected or harmed.

[Kid Shelleen]

I am waiting for the RedTards of the Inqy to apologize for endorsing the Soros DA, Larry Krasner. Krasner is responsible for a epic crime wave and the murders of hundreds of POC.

[Kid Shelleen]

*** Philly Metro Ping ***

Just when you thought wokeness could not get crazier the Inqy indulges in some self abuse and apologizes for being liberal.

[Prov1322]

Agreed. When does The Inky apologize to Conservatives?

I miss The Bulletin.

[Buttons12]

Apology penned by their CEO, Lisa Hughes. Who asked her to apologize, is more interesting...but not mentioned.

However, between the lines she seems to suggest the paper was racist up to the summer of 2020.

[Tell It Right]

If I was a black man in Philadelphia I'd be offended that they think I'm so emotionally and mentally weak that I need them to apologize for something they never did to me.

Here in Alabama I think the blacks are starting to see this and recognize the media pandering to them as the soft, but persistent, bigotry that it is.

[2banana]

The Inquirer has gone bankrupt TWICE in recent modern history

But it still publishes every day.

[Rurudyne]

I pledge to not concern myself when the Woke are offended, pledge to not support anti-racism that now demands everyone be bigoted against straight white men, pledge to savor and take full opportunity of any chance to not care that slavery or Jim Crow ever existed (we owe no one reparations) and I finally pledge to not care if a community has fallen on hard times ever since the locals rioted.

[PGR88]

Two years ago we made a pledge to become an anti-racist organization.

Anti-racist means actively fascist.

[Dave Wright]

The internet has radically changed the movie, music, video, and information industries since 1990. The rise of alternative news sources has rendered large newspapers, dependent on print advertising, largely unprofitable and irrelevant. The Inquirer is yet another dinosaur cursing the meteor that is signaling their impending doom. If they think this is just because they didn’t hire minorities, they are in denial and delusional.

[Antoninus]

When do Catholics get our apology? The Inky has been trashing us for centuries.

[pepsi_junkie]

If I was a black man in Philadelphia I'd be offended that they think I'm so emotionally and mentally weak that I need them to apologize for something they never did to me.

I don't know about mentally weak but I'll say this: having been forced to go to "white people are bad" group training at work several times now I have learned one key thing about the black people I work with. From every level, from new hires to executives they all really like to tell white people how terrible it is to be black and how it's the fault of white people, especially men, like me. I love being told by some black Senior VP who has millions that he's being oppressed by my white priveledge, does wonder for the morale.

My point being that when they feel free to say what they want to white folk it seems the truth comes out: they don't like us much.

[JimRed]

Here in Alabama I think the blacks are starting to see this and recognize the media pandering to them as the soft, but persistent, bigotry that it is.

The soft bigotry of low expectations. There's hardly a politician alive with the nerve to say, "You are equal now; start BEHAVING like it"!

[Tell It Right]

Maybe I have a bias for two reasons. Most of the blacks I engage with are in church, we hang out together, and our kids spend the night together (at least until my kids grew up). In other words, most of the blacks I'm around are people we choose to be around, not forced to be around (ie because you work together).

The other reason I might have a bias is my community. Huntsville, Alabama has a very high portion of the workers who are engineers. We tend to care more about the facts of life that make things work, not about talking points that have no basis in reality.

[pepsi_junkie]

The other reason I might have a bias is my community. Huntsville, Alabama has a very high portion of the workers who are engineers. We tend to care more about the facts of life that make things work, not about talking points that have no basis in reality.

I'm an engineer. Most of my coworkers are too. I used to think the same thing. Then HR decided that they wanted to tear a giant gash into the team by having sessions where one part of the group is empowered.... nay emboldened ... to berate another part of the group as fundamentally flawed with the original sin of whiteness. Changed my perspective. Note that I don't resent my black coworkers for this, I resent HR for forcing us to endure such a mean spirited "training" session.

I wish it weren't so. I'd prefer to think (as I always had prior to, say, Obama, that blacks had a different experience and different cultural influences than I may have but setting those aside there was nothing that came between us. But it seems there is a giant unstated something between us, not from me but from the other party.