[willyboyishere]

"Both racial preferences and racism played a role.....
I would argue that racism had much more of an impact."
----Those are the key sentences, and the central conceit
in this entire issue.On the one hand, there's an implicit admission that he was underqualified, and got to his position in the first place because he was black, and
cunning in his ability to play that for all it was worth,
barrelling through probably all kinds of suspicions over the years from the higher-ups.On the other hand, he finally has to lay the blame on that abstract "devil" of racism that stoked his
inherently doomed ambition to make it in "the white man's world". The fact that there are a number of credible black journalists who've never felt the need to make things up, already writing for "white" newspapers is an irony that is lost on this coke-head.
This pig-headedness reminds me of the black man on the D.C.
street's reaction to the Marion Barry incident, where Barry
was videotaped smoking crack with a hooker: "Well, hell, yeah, the white man made him crazy, they made him do it!!!"
If we could penetrate this kind of logic, we'd go a long way towards understanding the kind of monster we've created
with two full generations of PC excuse-making.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

If we could penetrate this kind of logic, we'd go a long way towards understanding the kind of monster we've created with two full generations of PC excuse-making.

Simple. It's called racism. Black racism.

[Madstrider]

This pig-headedness reminds me of the black man on the D.C. street's reaction to the Marion Barry incident, where Barry was videotaped smoking crack with a hooker: "Well, hell, yeah, the white man made him crazy, they made him do it!!!"

I can see the cover of his book now:

B!TCH
SET ME UP
By Jayson Blair