The stone refusal of U.S. news reporters to mention race even when it is obviously the big factor driving a story, baffles and amazes me.<\/p>\n
This morning’s New York Post<\/em> carries a full-page story (p.15) by one of the paper’s big-name writers, Andrea Peyser, about a 12-year-old boy, Eric Benson, who’s afraid to go to school. He attends New Horizons School in Boerums Hill, Brooklyn. “Should attend,” I mean: he’s been badly bullied, and now is afraid to go. He hasn’t been able to get the “safety transfer” which is apparently usual in these cases. His not getting the transfer is the main point of Ms. Peyser’s story, which has no mention whatever of student demographics.<\/p>\n The story<\/a> has a picture of Eric, a mild-looking skinny white kid. My instinctive reaction was: “Oh, he’s getting beaten up by Sun People.” I went to GreatSchools.net to see student demographics for the school<\/a>. \u00a0 Sun People: 90 percent.<\/p>\n Eric: “I don’t know why they don’t like me.”\u00a0 Uh\u00a0\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The stone refusal of U.S. news reporters to mention race even when it is obviously the big factor driving a story, baffles and amazes me. This morning’s New York Post carries a full-page story (p.15) by one of the paper’s … Continue reading