Can’t the New York Times come up with anything better to put into print?
A recent editorial piece by African-American writer Greg Howard called out “white women” in New York City for being racist by allegedly not acknowledging him as they walk down city streets looking at or communicating on their cell phones.
While Howard might be correct in that lots of people in the Big Apple use cell phones, it’s a huge generalization to say that “all” white women can be lumped into such a consciously disrespectful and/or racist category. In fact, this highly subjective viewpoint isn’t backed up by any empirical evidence whatsoever except possibly for a few ad hoc observations possibly all made on a single street corner. Talk about unscientific!
Instead of citing some kind of report or study on the matter, Howard takes it upon himself to castigate an entire population demographic as racist based solely on (potentially) a one-time observation likely confined to a very focused geographic area. As Rasmussen political analyst Amy Holmes notes, this is the worst kind of race-baiting, progressive tripe that can be put in print, and it’s just further evidence that the Times’ editorial standards have fallen a long way from the paper’s glory days. Watch as Holmes gives her opinion on Howard’s piece to Fox News.