Kleinheider: Wrong, but not racist
The question to me isn’t could Adam Kleinheider take his words from yesterday back. It’s would he? Adam is right that the main opportunity he has to make aggregation of local political content more interesting is through headlines and brief commentary.
Adam was wrong to use a pejorative and emotionally charged term as part of his ongoing efforts to provoke interest in and discussion about local politics, but was he being racist? No, I don’t think he was, and nor do I think he is racist. He should have picked a better way to say it, but the resulting controversy makes one point clear: Race continues to be a sensitive and awfully tough topic to discuss for pretty much everyone.
Others have covered this subject in more detail and much better than me. For a laundry list of opinions, note the bottom of this post from Adam. In the meantime, Adam has apologized, and let’s move on. We don’t need to lose another talented local blogger by blowing the situation further out of proportion.
October 2nd, 2009 at 11:43 am
Amen, brother.
October 2nd, 2009 at 11:46 am
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October 2nd, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Thanks, Margie.