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The Weblog at The View from the Core - Fri. 10/25/02 12:06:04 PM
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Lee Malvo is Not African American! He's Jamaican, you numbskulls! Back when Bernie Goldberg's book Bias was coming out, I read somewhere a complaint by a reporter whose editor would not publish an article as he had written it, but required that one individual in the article be called "African American" instead of "black". The reporter balked. You see, the individual was from... Jamaica. The article, however, was published calling him "African American". That's the kind of story you can hardly believe, yet you know it has to be true. Lee Malvo, "ward" of John Allen Muhammed, is a Jamaican national in this country illegally. Jamaican. Jamaican! Jamaican! That does not, however, keep The Washington Post today in what is otherwise a very good article from calling Malvo... "African American": .... Dietl said in an interview yesterday that he "never in a million years" would have guessed that the two people arrested would turn out to be African American. But he made no apologies, saying instead, "I feel like I was part of the case, because I was on TV so much. I wanted people to feel that they could be a detective and that they could be the one who captures these parasites." .... AAAaaaaarrrrgggghhhhh!!!!!!!! Update: I had thought Malvo's first name is James, but I have also seen him called John Lee Malvo. So, I have changed the references to Lee Malvo. Also, I have seen John Allen's current last name spelled various ways, and I don't know which is correct. Lane Core Jr. CIW P Fri. 10/25/02 12:06:04 PM |
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