Good Riddance to ... (Non-White?) Trash.

Sarah Jeong is out at the NYT editorial board.
Of course, this being today's journ-o-lism, we are only hearing the Real News reported more than a month later (happened in August) in the New York Post. Why they ever hired a young woman who so clearly hated on "white people" is beyond me. Oh yeah... diversity!

A New York Times editorial board member who raised eyebrows when old tweets critical of “white people” resurfaced, is no longer employed by the Gray Lady, a report said.

Sarah Jeong left the board in August, CNN reported.

“Sarah decided to leave the editorial board in August,” Kate Kingsbury, a deputy editorial page editor told CNN Friday. “But we’re glad to still have her journalism and insights around technology in our pages through her work as a contributor.”

She’ll now be a “contracted contributor for NYT Opinion” according to CNN.

The new role will permit her to “go back to reporting and writing long features while still being involved with NYT Opinion section on tech issues,” she told CNN.

In a since-deleted 2014 posting, Jeong wrote: “Oh man it’s kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men.” {There are others.}

“Dumbass f–king white people marking up the internet with their opinions like dogs pissing on fire hydrants,” she wrote in another.

Personally, I think a lot of the problem with young people like this, is that they come up in the liberal/rich white world, and think they've won a golden ticket when they get accepted to the Ivies and at the fancy companies. Then they realize, they're just being used as diversity tokens, and try as they might, they will never be considered "white" (whatever that is...) (Most "white" Americans I know identity by their European ethnicity -- Polish, Italian, Irish, etc. -- and not by the color of their skin, especially those of the second-, and third-generations. Black immigrants too, are Kenyans, Nigerians, Somalis, etc. -- all with the proudly appended American after the hyphen. It means something when you've earned your way in and up, but haven't forgotten your roots. Who would choose the color of their skin as a way to identify, unless they don't really know where they came from? The whole "white people" and "black people" thing is a way for outsiders to out themselves, really, as not part of the local community or collective tribe.)

Wouldn't it be better to accept your heritage, and not be envious of others, whether they were born with blue eyes and fair skin, or darker skin, hair and features? Nobody ever shines brighter by unscrewing another person's lightbulb, as the trite say. IN fact, such thinking is why albinos are so often shunned and killed in foreign countries. Seriously. Do you follow that news? Talk about endangered refugees who need shelter...

Good luck to Sarah as she grows in her journey of self acceptance. I give her a few more years of Times paychecks before she divorces herself from that institution and frees herself more fully to work and compete independently as the true individual she is. #FreedomIsWorthIt #That'sTheRealAmericanDream, not hitting the top of the caste system. #ShatterThat.