Whites and discrimination: who fights for them?

Several years ago, I wrote a recommendation for a gifted European-American reporter who had written the best story on a poor, predominantly black town of Chester, Pa. that I had ever read. The then-mayor of the town called me afterward to say it had been the fairest story my newspaper had ever published on his city. Yet this culturally savvy journalist – an asset to any newsroom – later was rejected for a job because he was the wrong color. “They were looking for a black,” he explained, dejectedly. 


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