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If you're white and are critical about another culture you are a "Racist" yet if you are of another culture you can criticize whites all you want and its totally ok.
Double standard....... you bet!!
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Racial Double Standard for Student Writer?
Saturday, April 24, 2004
COVALIS, Oregon --Barred from writing columns for the Oregon State University Daily Barometer, senior David Williams is in the eye of a storm some call a racial double standard.
The newspaper's editor fired him after he wrote: "I think blacks should be more careful in deciding whom they choose to support.
They need to grow beyond the automatic reaction of defending someone because he or she shares the same skin color and is in a dilemma."
Williams, who is white, was referring to examples such as
wh
n singer R. Kelly (search), who is accused of being
a child pornographer, received a standing ovation at the Soul Train Music Awards. He also cited past support for O.J. Simpson (search) and Allen Iverson (search).
"I guess this case has shown me that just because I'm a different skin color, the merits of what I wrote have been marginalized and ostracized to the point that I'm labeled everything in the book like racist, Nazi," Williams said.
A similar article, written just two days earlier by Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts (search) drew no such outrage. Pitts, who is black, wrote: "Blacks ought to be more thoughtful about whom they choose to rally around, ought to be less automatic in leaping to the defense."
Although Williams admits
he read Pitts' article before writing his own, he wasn't fired for plagiarism. And he was canned only after protests erupted on campus.
"I think he was fired because he'
;s w
hite
," sai
d talk show host Lars Larson (search). "If he had been a black student saying the same thing
... as Leonard Pitts wrote the same thing ... Leonard Pitts' opinion was welcome. His opinion was not."
Black leaders on campus disagreed with Williams' firing but admit they protested against the article and didn't take the same action for Pitts because of their different races.
Williams "does not know the experiences African-Americans have gone through. He will never know that," said Lauren Smith, president of the university's Black Student Union.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,118048,00.html
If you're white and are critical about another culture you are a "Racist" yet if you are of another culture you can criticize whites all you want and its totally ok.
Double standard....... you bet!!
********************************************************************
Racial Double Standard for Student Writer?
Saturday, April 24, 2004
COVALIS, Oregon --Barred from writing columns for the Oregon State University Daily Barometer, senior David Williams is in the eye of a storm some call a racial double standard.
The newspaper's editor fired him after he wrote: "I think blacks should be more careful in deciding whom they choose to support.
They need to grow beyond the automatic reaction of defending someone because he or she shares the same skin color and is in a dilemma."
Williams, who is white, was referring to examples such as
wh
n singer R. Kelly (search), who is accused of being
a child pornographer, received a standing ovation at the Soul Train Music Awards. He also cited past support for O.J. Simpson (search) and Allen Iverson (search).
"I guess this case has shown me that just because I'm a different skin color, the merits of what I wrote have been marginalized and ostracized to the point that I'm labeled everything in the book like racist, Nazi," Williams said.
A similar article, written just two days earlier by Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts (search) drew no such outrage. Pitts, who is black, wrote: "Blacks ought to be more thoughtful about whom they choose to rally around, ought to be less automatic in leaping to the defense."
Although Williams admits
he read Pitts' article before writing his own, he wasn't fired for plagiarism. And he was canned only after protests erupted on campus.
"I think he was fired because he'
;s w
hite
," sai
d talk show host Lars Larson (search). "If he had been a black student saying the same thing
... as Leonard Pitts wrote the same thing ... Leonard Pitts' opinion was welcome. His opinion was not."
Black leaders on campus disagreed with Williams' firing but admit they protested against the article and didn't take the same action for Pitts because of their different races.
Williams "does not know the experiences African-Americans have gone through. He will never know that," said Lauren Smith, president of the university's Black Student Union.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,118048,00.html
