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Gabriel Keith said he had no understanding of the racist implications of a noose when he taped one to the ceiling of the newsroom at the campus newspaper at Minneapolis Community Technical College last month.
"I am definitely aware of it now," says Keith, who was fired as the paper's news editor and has become the center of a robust debate over cultural sensitivity at the campus where nearly half the 11,800-student population is minority and 30 percent are black.
Wow. If that's the level of American historical awareness you have, the education system has failed you horribly, and you hitched a ride on the failboat, too.
Sadly, I'm actually willing to accept his insistences of ignorance. That, to me, seems more likely than naked racism. And I'm actually all for firing editors who're that abysmally cretinous. Either way, this isn't someone you want as a desk editor.
"I am definitely aware of it now," says Keith, who was fired as the paper's news editor and has become the center of a robust debate over cultural sensitivity at the campus where nearly half the 11,800-student population is minority and 30 percent are black.
Wow. If that's the level of American historical awareness you have, the education system has failed you horribly, and you hitched a ride on the failboat, too.
Sadly, I'm actually willing to accept his insistences of ignorance. That, to me, seems more likely than naked racism. And I'm actually all for firing editors who're that abysmally cretinous. Either way, this isn't someone you want as a desk editor.
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