Her Name is Rose
Another Saturday, another racially charged editorial by Rose Russell (3/3/07), surprise, surprise. Her most recent attempt to needlessly place a racial spin on a tragedy was so full of absurdities I hardly know where to begin, so I’ll comment on the most outlandish. In a thinly veiled rhetorical question Ms. Russell asked, would Robert Jobe, the 15 year old accused of killing a police officer, be on the street at 2 A.M. or still be in jail for previous criminal activity if he were black?
A good question. A better one would be, would Ms. Russell have a weekly column if she were white? I doubt it, her writing is average at best. Ms. Russell is an excellent example of affirmative action at it’s most abused and unfair; black with the added advantage of being a woman. Ms. Russell should thank God; her skin color and gender has taken her to a place talent never would have.
Rose Russell sees a bigot behind every pair of blue eyes. When the only tool you have is a hammer everything begins to look like a nail, in other words she only sees a racial component everywhere she looks.
Like the boy who cried wolf, Ms. Russell’s writing has lost all credibility. Many in the African American community may look up to Ms. Russell as a success and role model, what a pity. If you really want to help inner city youth Ms. Russell use your grasp of grammar and langrage to teach English as a second language to the youth of our city whose mother tongue is Ebonics.