Greenwich Village Newspaper Publisher Defends N-Word Obama Headline
The article by James Lincoln Collier in the latest edition of 20,000-circulation monthly WestView News is actually pro-Obama. But as New York Post writers Kevin Fasick and Laura Italiano accurately suggest, many readers – especially since the article is not presently online – will never get past the shock of a very debatable headline: “The N***** in the White House”.
From the Post article:
The shocking headline sits at the top of page 15 above an opinion piece that criticizes what it calls the anti-black “racism” of far-right voters…
Columnist Alvin Hall wrote a piece called “This Headline Offends Me,” which ran below Collier’s column.
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