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Originally Posted by MysticCat
Thanks for your response Sugar08. I do understand better now where you were coming from on the Uncle Tom label.
I guess I didn't read the column as laying out everything the writer had to say on the subject, but rather as simply discussing a specific reaction he had to the protest. That is to say, I perhaps assumed that he was not dismissing other real or root problems, but was just doing what I do sometimes -- taking particular note of a particular reaction.
But I can see your point.
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I understand what you're saying too. I suppose I'm extremely sensitive to this type of article because as a journalism major at an HBCU, the term "responsible reporting" took on a whole new meaning. As a reporter, I felt the factual responsibility of getting things correct, along with the social responsibility of being a black reporter.
I could go on all day about racial disparities in the news (and the newsroom) and the fact that the very few black reporters tend to fall into one of three categories: those who just report on the what the agenda-setters have declared "news," those who attempt to maintain a social conciousness while reporting, and those like this author and, say, Stanley Crouch, who write these columns which aren't addressing what I consider to be the real issues while receiving high praise from those who don't have the interests of African Americans at heart.