Quote: (09-08-2014 12:50 PM)scorpion Wrote:
This just gets more and more laughable. "He's got some African in him," said in regard to a player who was born in Africa.
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The Chronicle made an egregious error in the Feb. 12, 2004, edition by allowing the lead paragraph of the Duke-Virginia men's basketball game story, "Resilient Blue Devils slam UVa in second half," to include the sentence, "Luol Deng went up strong with his orangutan arms, like he always does." Although the author, Matt Sullivan, myself and the other editors working on the paper Wednesday night did not intend to invoke any racial stereotypes, we understand how many in our readership were deeply offended by the phrase and its inherent implications. Sullivan and the editors who copyedited the story should have recognized the incredibly poor choice of words and changed it immediately.
http://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/20...izes-error