Ugh! Using "Brotha" in a lede....

From Michael Smith on ESPN.com

"So just how big a deal is it that a brotha (two as it turned out) finally led a team to the Super Bowl? Put it this way: a big enough deal to make black folk in Baltimore root for the hated Colts."

brotha? How does that NOT get sliced by a copy editor?

I understand Michael Smith is black, but brotha? You know a white writer couldn't pull that off without getting his ass chewed and rightfully so.
What would be the equivalent if a white guy wrote the same thing about a white coach
"honkey"?

 

It would be a historic achievement for People of Pallor.

 

I thought it was "Bruh" now.

Brotha is so 1997...

 

I understand what he's going for, the audience he's trying to reach, but it just misses me.
It's not a big deal, he can use whatever word he wants. It just bothers me when I see "Brotha" or "Bra" or "Bro-ham" in a story.

 

Broham? Are we speaking of Cadillacs?

 

May I humbly offer up "cracka" for all whitey references?

 

you guys take things too literally, there's nothing wrong with brotha. Its journalism, was it wrong or does it just make some of you uncomfortable?

 

Thanks for stopping by, Michael Smith!

 

I think People of Pallor is my new favorite phrase.

 

That is right on point.

And I prefer to be called either Nquence Ocha (White Devil for all seven Ace Ventura 2 fans).

 

It's no Hulk Hogan or Superfly Snuka calling everyone Bruddah

 

Not Michael Smith, just a brotha trying to make sense of some nonsense being spewed on this board