The column, written by James Lincoln Collier, author of the award-winning children’s book My Brother Sam Is Dead; is reported to actually be in support of the President, arguing that “these far right voters hate Obama because he is black.”
“The simple truth,” Collier continued, “is that there is still in America an irreducible measure of racism,” which he connects to the position on immigration that allowed David Brat defeat to Eric Cantor in a Republican primary last month.
According to reports, Collier wanted to use the word in the headline “to shock [readers] into accepting that there still are people who believe and use this outrageous word.”
The 86-year-old editor and publisher of the paper George Capsis, prefaced the column by noting that, in it, “Jim reminded me that The New York Times avoids using the word which convinced me that WestView should.”
He also mentioned that the paper’s editorial staff “continues to object” to the word’s use.
In fact, Collier’s column shared a page with another titled “The Headline Offends Me,” written by the paper’s African-American columnist, Alvin Hall. “The decision to use the headline feels misguided to me,” he wrote, adding that “just seeing the n-word in a headline or in an article always makes me bristle.”
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