<p>The Source’s excuse that it’s just about affirmative action is absurd, and frankly I’m disappointed in you, lolabelle, for believing that. They had a meting before hand to discuss it, they knew precisely the full extent of what they were publishing and how it would be interpereted. </p>
<p>The carol targeted specifically black students and only black students. And that is racism and nothing else. </p>
<p>It was not a failled attempt at satire that was taken the wrong way. It was calculated and planned to be inflamitory and hurtful. They relate it vaugly to affirmative action in a way that doesn’t even begin to excuse it. Furthermore, it was not a mistake of any sort and their apology hold ABSOLUTELY NO WEIGHT WHATSOEVER. At least Kramer can say he was overexcited and said something he didn’t mean to say. The Source planned, discussed, and considered the carol, and then printed it, so to speak, in cold blood.</p>
<p>The carol was not a failed attempt at satire. It was a racist attack masquerading as a mistake. And it is absolutely inexcusable.</p>