Posted on September 1 at 10:09 p.m.Suggest removal

I am one person who complained, and I personally accept the editor's apology. But please OUguy, the article was not an "accident." An accident is typing the same word twice twice or letting your finger remain on one computer key "ssssssssssss" for three seconds and forgetting to delete. To write an entire article describing the fear of visiting a fast food place because Black gangstas might kill you required thought and time (though lacking insight about racial dynamics). Certainly a senior could have been more insightful. The readers of this university paper have some justification to feel irritated or angry. No one has "lost the lid", the article opened the container. With the apology it will close again in time.

Again, Thank you Jamie for responding to this matter with necessary haste.
Dr. Pellebon

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Posted on September 1 at 11:49 a.m.Suggest removal

I just came up from a break teaching about racism and stereotypes in class, and my email inbox had this article asking for my reaction. Well here it is: You've got to be kidding me! I don't know if Mr. West is racist, but I do know that he is prejudiced and and thinks using stereotypes as a guide. What may be worst is the fact that some editor did not pick up how this article could elicit feelings of strong offense to (at least) emotional discomfort. This is one of many the evidences of how we are NOT in a "post-racial era" just because there is an African American president. This is not about political correctness, this is just academic/journalistic incompetence.
Dwain Pellebon, Ph.D.

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