This is definitely a racist reaction. Imagine the MSM sh** storm if an all white mag hired a black person and people raised he** about it. In America the PC crowd assumes blacks can’t be prejudiced, only white people can be racist in their eyes.
Well, I know how much whites hate it when some black person gets put in charge of our magazines. /sarc.
Seriously, beyond the obvious racism of “outrage” that a white person happened to be the best person for a job, is the overt acceptance that there is a magazine for “black people”. Can’t imagine such acceptance of a magazine for “white people”, much less a magazine for “white people” where blacks shouldn’t apply for a job.
But, but I thought we were all equal.
ROTFLOL
There are alternate standards for the various ethnicities. There can be a black congressional caucus, a black NFL head coaches association, and slew of other blacks-only orgs. That is not racist. However even though they don’t exist, if the opposite were true, a slew of whites only orgs, then that would be racist. Does that clear things up? Remember, with the election of Obama, the first real black president, we’re now living in post-racial America. Except we aren’t.
ok..shoot me. I could imagine quite a few scenarios where I’d question the choice of editor for an issues specific magazine. A learned, albeit atheist hired as an editor at an unabashedly christian magazine... I could go on.
It’s not racist... but it’s definitely a questionable choice.