Tufts U. newspaper attempts to 'whitewash' their vile racist Christmas "parody"

[Bluebear]

by Duncan Pickard (Tufts freshman)

Who wrote “O Come All Ye Black Folk?” The editors of the Source accepted responsibility for the piece, but without a by-line on the carol, who actually sat down and wrote it?

We’ll probably never know. The Source is doing everything possible to cover up, and change the past. The Source recovered as many copies of the mint-green December 6 issue as they could. Boxes of the Source generally sit unread in many buildings on campus weeks after their publication date, but all remaining copies of the issue were removed by December 8.

The senior staff of the Source has even tried to remove themselves from the situation. At the December 10 TCU Senate meeting, the Source editor-in-chief Allison Hoover took responsibility for everything published in the magazine. How convenient that she’s not going to be the editor next semester. We come back to campus in January with no one to hold accountable.

Allison Hoover

The Source also removed the lyrics of the carol from their website. Talk about erasing the past. It is simply unaccepted in most journalistic circles to alter something that was already published, online or in print. Respectable, national publications make regrettable mistakes all the time, but they are not so Orwellian to pretend the mistakes never happened. Most publications often display errors with appending explanatory notes. The Source’s negligence in this situation demonstrates their irresponsibility... MORE

Remember that the Source’s right to free speech includes the right to offend. So to those who disagree with the Source, be offended. Tell people why you are offended, and what you want done about it. It’s our right just as much as it is theirs.

http://www.tuftsobserver.org/opinion/20070126/engendering_accountabilit.html

[GrumpyGreg]

1. Why even post that garbage?