- November 23, 2024
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+ Why was there not a single person of color in your Jan. 2 best advice issue?
Dear Editor:
Wednesday afternoon I picked up the Jan. 2 edition of the Palm Coast Observer. I looked at the cover and said, “OK, this should be a good issue to read — advice which helped others in 2012.” I turned the pages, and as I read and turned, I became more and more sad.
Oh, for sure, some of the advice was excellent.
Why then was I sad? I refuse to believe even with my sadness at your short-sightedness or your (color blindness) that you could not find one person of color to hear and print what brought that person through 2012!
Oh, yes, we do tend to hang our perceptions on racism often enough. Many times this perception is refuted. But this time, what do you have to say for your shortcomings? Perhaps you could not find one person of color who was willing to share? Or, perhaps we have become so post-racial that the majority speaks for the minority in issues of personal feelings and thoughts?
Sorry to bring this up at the beginning of the New Year, but you folks will have to do better. Why not let Palm Coast and the world see the wonderful multicolor city we all live in? Or, am I only dreaming in multicolor prisms about our population?
Thank you for a year of generally fair reporting and for the new insights you will feed your public in 2013.
Jennifer P. Holness
Palm Coast
Editor’s Note: We did reach out to people of different ethnicities for their best advice, but unfortunately they didn’t respond to our requests. Most white people didn’t, either, as a matter of fact.
We agree with you that having an all-white best advice issue isn’t representative of our community; however, we don’t feel it’s responsible to make race a determining factor for including people in the newspaper, so we didn’t actively seek out individuals merely in the name of diversity. We agree with Morgan Freeman when he said, “How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it.”
Still, we will continue to strive to be comprehensive and report on all ethniticies in our great community in the future.
