Amusing Ending
James Koman recently wrote an opinion article in the Mustang Daily, the student newspaper of Cal Poly, entitled Why I hate white people. The article contains very racist and ignorant thoughts about white people, in case you couldn’t tell from the title. The newspaper was flooded with protesting letters to the editor in the following days. I just read the article and found the last sentence amusing, which is ironic since the rest of the article wasn’t:
… White folks always try to rationalize their racial status by stating “I’m half-Italian, half-Norwegian,” or “I’m British,” or “I’m albino,” but they’re just trying to avoid the dreaded truth: they are white people. Not me though, I’m Irish-Polish-Czech. I hope this column forces you and your people to look inward and realize that your egotistic nature, fast-food diet and overall smaller brain size are a drain on this great nation and the dreams of our white Founding Fathers. Thank you for your time.
James Koman is a biology junior and a Mustang Daily humor columnist.
I don’t know how that guy can show his face on campus again.
Tags: cal poly, ignorant, james koman, mustang daily, racist
January 15th, 2008 at 10:22 am
I loved that article! I also commented on it at the newspaper’s website, so most of the following is from that comment:
The second you say a white person is ruining America, there is huge outcry, while the same thing is said about (mostly Mexican) immigrants by political leaders all the time. His statements, when applied to Caucasians, are automatically labeled racist, but I have heard the same comments made in regards to other ethnic minorities and most of the time they are labeled as fact. I thank him for pointing out the racism in some commonplace, supposedly non-racist statements.
January 15th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
It isn’t clear from the article that it was meant to be satirical, nor is the satire (if that is indeed what it is) obvious. This was a poor, tasteless attempt to illustrate hypocrisy.