Featured in a article in the WestView News, James Lincoln Collier wrote this story entitled The N*gger in the White House because he was trying to be ironic. Seriously?
The whole concept of the article was about the Republican’s racism towards the Obama agenda, but it failed.
Instead it sparked an outrage all over twitter and other social media. Columnist Collier wanted to use the title as an ironic gesture, to spark attention to the way the racists feel about the Obama presidency, but it backfired. Who wants to open their newspaper or turn on the computer and see a title like this first thing in the morning?
Then why would a newspaper allow a writer to title his article with such negativity? The answer is simple,right? Not really, because the answer really doesn’t make any sense. The writer actually wanted to use the word to shock the public into realizing that there are still those who will use this word. Others at the paper do not see how the use of using this word benefits anyone.
Collier is a journalist whose work in the 70’s got him a Newbery Honor for a book he wrote, My Brother Sam is Dead. Here’s a clincher, he also co-wrote a book called Jump Ship to Freedom and there is also controversy behind the book as well for its use of the n word. Did the publisher do this for attention to their newspaper? It’s a question asked around the world.