Published by billionaire Mort Zuckerman, a diehard member of the Israel
lobby, the New York Daily News has been evolving into a fairly
hard-hitting “anti-racist” publication, to use the term that has come
under close scrutiny in the recent past by people such as Adolph Reed.
If you go to their website, you will see for example an item on the
disgusting Trayvon Martin “costume” worn at a Florida Halloween party.
Juan Gonzalez, Amy Goodman’s co-host at Democracy Now, has been writing
a column at the New for years now. So, in general, this is a paper that
is more liberal in some ways than the NY Times that has not had an
African-American op-ed columnist since Bob Herbert left some years ago.
Charles Blow does have a column that appears on Saturday but it is
fairly narrowly focused on polling and demographics.
The News broke the story on a young Black man being racially profiled by
Barneys, the upscale clothing store that I used to patronize in the
1980s when I worked on Wall Street.
The clothing store Barneys purports to cater to a certain class of
person, one so chic and so monied as to be eager to spend $280 on a pair
of jeans or $2,850 on a skimpy woman’s “bicolor jacket.”
Apparently, in Barneys’ view, this class of person did not extend to a
young, black New York City male who took a flier on buying a $300
Ferragamo belt. Trayon Christian says store security had him busted by
the NYPD.
full: http://louisproyect.org/2013/10/28/barneys-bigotry/
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