Virginia paper sorry for printing racist rant about ‘black motherf*ckers’

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Raw Story

Virginia paper sorry for printing racist rant about ‘black motherf*ckers’
By David Edwards
Tuesday, July 23, 2013 16:09 EDT

A newspaper in Virginia on Tuesday said that it would apologize after protesters demonstrated outside of its offices on Monday over anonymous racist comments that were recently printed.

In the July 16th edition of the weekly newspaper C-Ville‘s “The Rant” section, editors transcribed an anonymous voicemail that complained about African-Americans in Charlottesville restaurants.

“To all you black mother f*ckers running up here to the Charlottesville restaurants looking for free food, we wouldn’t be known as a restaurant, we would be know as a food bank,” the message said. “So, from now on when you bring your black ass into a restaurant in Charlottesville and want free food, carry your asses to a food bank. Thank you.”

Dozens of protesters responded on Monday with a rally outside of the newspaper’s office.


Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/23/virginia-paper-sorry-for-printing-racist-rant-about-black-motherfckers/

[greiner3]

1. From the paper's response;

“The Rant is designed as a vehicle for free speech and our policy has been only to edit rants that contain libel or hate speech. Giving voice to racist sentiments is not consistent with the mission of this paper or the aim of The Rant.”

Uhhhhh...

[Heidi]

14. It's a sad day when an editor hasn't a clue what hate speech is.

[struggle4progress]

2. "Damn! This is so confusing! First we had to stop keeping them as slaves and we had to start

calling them colored! Then we were supposed to stop lynching them and we were supposed to call them Negroes! Next we were supposed to let them vote and we couldn't call them Negroes anymore! And now suddenly they don't even want us to call them black motherf*ckers! Soon they're gonna complain we shouldn't shoot them whenever we feel nervous!"

[11 Bravo]

5. Perfect! I wish I could rec this!

[Blue_Tires]

3. wow...classy...

I'm also amused that a newspaper still has a phone-in "rant" section...I thought those went out in the 90s...

[yurbud]

13. that would discriminate against illiterate rednecks

[jtuck004]

4. That's too bad. Instead of realizing they have a problem in their midst, they burn the book.

Sounds like the governor of Indiana...

[Link Speed]

6. Maybe the caller should have done it as a rap song

Then it would not be deemed as racist.

I don't know how to do the 'sarcasm' thingie.

[dembotoz]

10. the sarcasm thingie is under smilies tag second group--welcome to du

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

7. Good.....

.....grief.

[They_Live]

8. I seriously thought

that this was going to be an Onion headline.

[VPStoltz]

9. Sounds like what Bill O'Lielly thought Black folks did...

along with yelling for more iced tea.

[Tom Ripley]

11. Sounds like the everyday reader comments on the online edition of my local paper

[Myrina]

12. There's an LTE/Op Ed in the Indy paper titled "Trayvon Martin was beating George Zimmerman to death"

What the HELL universe do these clowns exist in??