Through the looking glass
Thank you, Professor Kim (who, by the way, does a lot more quality writing than humor referral)
"USA Today Scandal A Threat To White Privilege, Mediocrity"
My Caucasians, oh my Caucasians, what doth the future hold?
A pasty white, middle-class, middle-aged brother has been exposed by USA Today as a monumental fabricator and plagiarist, making the work of Jayson Blair look like a Sunday School picnic. The malpractice of foreign correspondent Jack Kelley, which he denies before a mountain of damning evidence, threatens to focus suspicion on the work of white, middle-aged journalists everywhere.
For decades, we white journalists have rolled the rock up the mountain of Caucasian privilege. You know, my white brothers, of what I speak: the privilege to sit in the newsroom on our scrawny white asses, avoid eye contact with our editors, promise to "get to that assignment" when we have a chance, and (these days) slip out for a venti double mocha nonfat latte -- in short, the privilege to sidestep any challenge to our deeply ingrained right to mediocrity. No, we shall not be moved. 'Cause we own the place.
Until now, that is.
