Today in Old White Racist Columnists

[MisterCreosote]

Rancho Murieta newspaper cuts ties with columnist who suggested curfew for black men

Geez. This hot take from a Sacramento-area weekly after the Stephon Clark shooting:

“Hard to know what a young man wandering the streets at night might be up to and if he has a gun. Police have to be careful not to overreact, and you black men might be better off at home after a certain hour.”

 

[Big Circus]

Presentation would have been better with art.

 

[Doc Holliday]

Amazing that anyone in this profession, or any profession for that matter, would think this way. Wow.

 

[DanOregon]

I always enjoy white men "advising" women how to dress or others how to comport themselves around white men. Seriously, if the white male species is lacking this much self-control they shouldn't be given any position of authority.

 

[Azrael]

The "columnist" in this case was a woman.

Writing for a tiny weekly.

The publisher of which was filling in for the editor, and said this:

Herburger said he did not read the column before it ran in the print newspaper. "Had I read the proofs prior to publication, I would have been able to avoid all this," he said.



But if you want to scale up the white male cluelessness, look no farther than the inexplicable Richard Cohen in the Washington Post.

Opinion | Privilege is real. But being a white man shouldn’t disqualify me.

Which mostly generated responses like this:

www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/stevens/ct-life-stevens-richard-cohen-white-men-0418-story.html


wtf is wrong with people?

 

[Alma]

That Cohen’s column would spark outrage is indicative of just how far culture has come since the 1970s. It’s a little doddering but damn if it isn’t sincere. The man had emotions back when he didn’t get a job. He has some now. These emotions are mixed with the knowledge that systems still need fixing and....this is outrageous? No.

Social media and the proliferation of media sites make it possible for anyone - to have a voice. You don’t need anyone to “publish” your work. You can publish it yourself online. What’s more, large-scale media is very, very interested in publishing those alternative voices. Podcasts make it possible for most Americans to record their thoughts and put those out there for anyone to hear, as well.

There’s something behind a lot of liberal outrage today and I get it because Baby Boomer conservatives have earned it. And that something is “**** you where you stand.” Resentment. Righteous anger. A desire for revenge. And I suspect, when I believe America makes a hard left turn in 8-12 years, they’ll get a lot of revenge. The Richard Cohens of the world, and a lot of other white men, are going to be lumped in with the Sean Hannitys, and women and minority voices will get much of the power and vengeance they desire. I think it’s coming.

And fools like the woman columnist who suggested a curfew - probably in jest, but what difference does it make - will have paved the way to it. It’s coming.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

I'm more shocked that the white people here are shocked to find out that people hold these opinions and aren't afraid to broadcast them to the world.

Ask any person of color if they are shocked to read these columns.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Like TSP, I'm somewhere between amused and incredulous that we tend to think racism is on the fast decline.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Old white women should stick to what they know: Cracker Barrel and Olive Garden restaurant reviews.

 

[Alma]

I'm more shocked that the white people here are shocked to find out that people hold these opinions and aren't afraid to broadcast them to the world.

Two questions:

1. Has anyone else suggested in a newspaper that black men should consider a curfew?

2. Do you think she was seriously suggesting a curfew?

 

[poindexter]

My mom passed away two years ago. I have no idea how she wrote this column.

 

[poindexter]

Two questions:


2. Do you think she was seriously suggesting a curfew?

Of course she was serious. Zero chance this was said with humor. What planet do you live on?

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Two questions:

1. Has anyone else suggested in a newspaper that black men should consider a curfew?

2. Do you think she was seriously suggesting a curfew?

1. No clue. Plenty of other racist suggestions have been printed, however.

2. Yeppers.

 

[Alma]

Of course she was serious. Zero chance this was said with humor. What planet do you live on?

The one where coaches always used to tell players “nothing good happens after midnight.”

A few years ago there was a coach who wanted to take away cell phones and prohibit his players from talking to girls after a certain hour.

People think all kinds of things. I don’t think the woman was suggesting martial law. But maybe she was.

Either way, it goes without saying, she should have been fired and the line should have been edited out. As to whether it was a sincere policy suggestion, I don’t know.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

She didn't say midnight. Even if she did, she only thinks black people should be home before that time.

 

[poindexter]

There is zero evidence of her using humor in her column, Alma. I have no idea where you pulled that one.

RVT dismisses columnist after protests

• Although nominally about Rancho Murieta, Courson’s columns, which started in 2012, offered opinions on issues from local to national, often with viewpoints that reflect Courson’s standing as an active Republican.
• She is a past director of Rancho Murieta Country Club and a former leader of the community’s Women’s Club.

75 year-old white country club director and active republican.

So when she is talking about blacks staying in their place, Occam's razor tells me she is speaking from her heart, not doing a Dave Barry schtick.

This was her comment afterwards:
“I apologize for giving the community a black eye,” Herburger said. “I wish I could have helped us duck and not taken that.”

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Seventy-year-old white women just have problems with black people:

71-year-old woman arrested after pregnant service member attacked during argument over parking

 

[poindexter]

"you black men"

Laff riot

 

[Slacker]

• She is a past director of Rancho Murieta Country Club and a former leader of the community’s Women’s Club.

75 year-old white country club director and active republican.

Say, I wonder how many brown people are in her clubs. Somebody ask her that, please.

 

[Azrael]

I'm sure her intentions were good.