Phil Heron writes race

Phil and I talking race...not really.

The Daily Times editor can talk race with the best of them. Since most of you don’t get to talk to him, you occasionally read Phil's thoughts about race.  

Today, he talks of the consequences he expected from his readers on stories featuring Chester youth on the front pages last week. 

Phil has many years of experience to safely predict the response he’d get in emails, comments, and phone calls when Chester looks too good in the paper. 

This time, Super Editor was hit with a haymaker to the head that he never saw coming.

Oh yeah, the people did speak up as expected. But, they gave the Chester kids a pass. 

However, they found another black person to complain about who wasn’t the focus of the story.

Personally, I don’t think there is enough dialogue about race. We need to have more conversations and less verbal attacks. 

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