There are too many black people in jail because of the criminality of too many black people, but nobody can say that. Time has this authority. It sounds like fact. It s about the weight of context, he claims. This guy Jack White is an ignorant black racist and a political extremist.
People understand where that s coming from.
The fact that it had the imprimatur of Time that Time s standards have sunk so low that they would have a character like this as a regular correspondent speaks volumes about what s happened to the press in this country. They would tone that down. I said, This is unacceptable. I want a retraction and an apology. Time reaches millions of people, he points out, but so now does an Internet media site like Drudge s, and Salon adds some tens of thousands of its own readers.