USA Africa Dialogue Series - Latina, at the white, male New York Times: "Why are people thinking it's OK to say racist sh-t in front of me?"

"I want to say that it's never come up, that no one has ever talked to me about editorials. But they probably did, and I didn't know what it was, and as I've been doing since I was in kindergarten, I probably acted like I knew what they were talking about and promptly forgot it.

Now I walk around the block to the Greek deli. I pass the women and men waiting at the bus stop, buy a copy of the Times and flip over the A section. A friend has told me to look at the left side of the last page, at the short paragraphs stacked like shoe boxes in a closet.

The writing carries no byline. It's monotonous, and I realize why I don't know what an editorial is. I've never made it past the second line.

My feelings, though, are irrelevant. This is the New York Times. They have Maureen Dowd and stringers all over the world, including countries I have to find in the Britannicaencyclopedia. If I get the internship, they won't actually let me write.

But they did."

http://www.salon.com/2014/09/28/latina_at_the_white_male_new_york_times_%E2%80%9Cwhy_are_people_thinking_it%E2%80%99s_ok_to_say_racist_sh_t_in_front_of_me%E2%80%9D/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

- Ikhide