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New York newspaper actually refers to the President as an N-word in a headline. Seriously?

Courtesy of The Wrap:

The WestView News, which touts itself as “The Voice of the West Village,” ran an op-ed titled “The Nig–r in the White House”

A community newspaper in New York faced intense criticism Sunday for calling President Obama the N-word in a headline.

The WestView News, a small paper that touts itself as “The Voice of the West Village,” ran an op-ed column in its July edition titled “The Nig–r in the White House.”

The article, penned by James Lincoln Collier, was actually pro-Obama and criticized what it called “racism” by far-right voters.

Possibly fearing backlash, the paper did not put the article on its website. But a copy of it was posted online by the New York Post, along with a screen grab of another story by WestView News Columnist Alvin Hall, who criticized the article.

Oh, okay I get it. They were trying to argue against racism by using the n-word kind of like I would fight a brush fire by throwing gasoline on it.

You know you can almost hear the Right Wing websites and Fox News rubbing their hands together in anticipation of getting the opportunity to refer to the n-word multiple times while ostensibly being horrified by its use.

I can just hear Fox now:

"Oh my God did you hear that they actually printed the n-word in their headline? Yes they actually referred to the President, who is a black man as you know, as an n-word. That is just terrible, calling him the n-word, don't you think 'cookie cutter blonde woman with the big boobs that works here?' After all WE would never use the n-word while discussing this President, who happens to be an African American as we all know, but of course now we have to because this paper had the gall to use the n-word and left us no choice."

In other words perhaps somebody should tell the WestView News that they are not helping.

(H/T to Politicususa.)

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