Erin Texeira is at it again
Posted by Joshua Claybourn on 9 July 2006 | 4 responses
One of the Associated Press’ worst reporters, Erin Texeira, has penned a couple of new “stories” on race relations. “Slavery reparations gaining momentum” and “Black men fight negative stereotypes daily” is now in newspapers across the country. Texeira’s evidence that raparations are gaining momentum? Charles Ogletree, a Harvard law professor and a leading reparations activist, says it is. And that’s apparently enough for Texeira and the AP to run a national story on its “vigor and vitality in the 21st century”. Click here to read more about Erin Texeira and the Narrative Journalism Movement.
4 Responses to “Erin Texeira is at it again”
After I ran acroos that article via Unpartisan.com I looked up on slavery repartions on Wikipedia and according to that entry:
“The Washington Times reports that the NAACP has called for legislation at the city level to demand reparations from companies which profited from slavery. It quotes Dennis C. Hayes, CEO of the NAACP, as saying, “Absolutely, we will be pursuing reparations from companies that have historical ties to slavery and engaging all parties to come to the table.”
Sp apparently Mr. Ogletree isn’t alone in that line of thinking.
Except the NAACP has been pursuing it for a while, so their stance is nothing new, and it should come as no surprise that they would favor it. A CNN/USA Today poll found seventy-five percent of Americans said that corporations should not pay reparations for slavery, and a whopping ninety percent said the government should not pay reparations.
Texeira wrote that reparationistas are gaining “momentum.” The way you judge whether her report is correct, Dyre42, is to either have followed the reparations story for a few years, or to research the movement’s development over the last few years. Finding a quote that shows that in addition to Charles Ogletree, the NAACP also supports reparations, functions less as a refutation of Joshua’s criticism of Texeira, than as a confession of your own laziness, Dyre42.
Oh, I’m sorry, Dr. Dyre. I just remembered — you read the Wikipedia article. Ignore my previous criticisms. You know all about the history of the reparations movement… not!
Texeira’s claim is no more than an attempt to bring about a self-fulfilling prophecy, by using the bully pulpit of AP to convince millions of readers that reparations enjoy growing support, and thus to con them into jumping on the bandwagon by thinking, “Well, everyone else is doin’ it.” Conversely, had she proceeded like a journalist, and like Joshua, cited the huge opposition to paying reprations, she would have refuted her own story.
Thanks for your continuing reports on this particular content provider, Joshua.
I found this site about Texeira. It hasn’t been updated in a while, but its pretty good.
http://www.brianwilkinsblog.com