I do believe issuing an apology was the correct thing for the Daily to do. With that said, anyone who read that article and found it offensive did it rightly so. No one was being too "sensitive". The point of the article had little to do with chicken and a lot to do with racial stereotyping. As for Bobo's being a "scary" place at 2am, well maybe so. But why is it a scary place? The article in question implied (and did so by saying everything but the word "black") that it was scary simply because black "gangstas" hung around there. So people should be upset about this, but an apology has been made as it should. As for the attack on Jamie, that is simply not called for. Jamie has the right to claim what ethnicity she desires, and no person has a right to judge and criticize her choice of ethnicity (because ethnicity is a personal choice).
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I do believe issuing an apology was the correct thing for the Daily to do. With that said, anyone who read that article and found it offensive did it rightly so. No one was being too "sensitive". The point of the article had little to do with chicken and a lot to do with racial stereotyping. As for Bobo's being a "scary" place at 2am, well maybe so. But why is it a scary place? The article in question implied (and did so by saying everything but the word "black") that it was scary simply because black "gangstas" hung around there. So people should be upset about this, but an apology has been made as it should. As for the attack on Jamie, that is simply not called for. Jamie has the right to claim what ethnicity she desires, and no person has a right to judge and criticize her choice of ethnicity (because ethnicity is a personal choice).
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