Miner Ross (sophomore, Biochemistry)

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Tef’s opinion piece of last week, “Racism Strikes Party Scene Wearing Brown” has to be the most overblown, inflammatory piece of yellow journalism I’ve read in a long time. The idea of a “Cowboys & Indians” party is a parody of a caricature of a stereotype of a misinterpretation of American Indian culture. It isn’t based on anything–it’s turtles all the way down, and there’s nothing factual at the bottom. His reaction to what basically amounts to innocent fun on the part of the party-goers is to accuse the entire Oxy campus of being racist crypto-colonialists. He sounds as though he legitimately believes the student body is out to get him. I didn’t hear any of our Italian- or Greek-American students getting this upset after the Toga dance last semester, and yet that is roughly what this article is akin to.

Jake Solomon makes a fantastic point in his letter to the editor of the same issue that it is very easy to substantiate racism to gain sympathy – even where none exists. This kind of overzealous, wolf-crying reaction to what is essentially a farce has no value, journalistic or otherwise and I sincerely hope that the editorial board of the Weekly will take a lesson from this in learning to better evaluate the journalistic merit of its articles in the future.

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