Chicago Trib buries Tutu, along with our race problem.

Nobody asked me but (NAMB),
No wonder America's newspapers are dying. They seem to be intent on committing suicide.

Case in point - Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the world-famous, Nobel Prize winning moral leader and head of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, was in Chi-Town yesterday (May 13). In a meeting with the Chicago Tribune, he's quoted as saying, unlike in South Africa's apartheid era, "where blacks were treated as nothing", in America "You say to them (blacks), 'You're equal and the sky's the limit.' And they keep bumping against this thing that's stopping them from reaching out to the stars." The articles headline is, "Desmond Tutu: Equality of U.S. blacks an 'illusion'".

He also weighs in on the Rev. Wright controversy, basically agreeing with the Wright Rev. and ol' RaceMan.

So where does the Chicago Tribune put this world renowned leader's words about America's biggest and longest-running problem? On page 13, in very small type in two very short columns on a page filled with ads, of course. They interred Tutu so deep on their website I had to Google to find him.

So it's up to lowly, little, byte-stained bloggers like moi to once again beat the big boys to the stories and truths right under their corporate, compromised noses. Maybe if so-called "news" papers used their financial firepower to become "truth papers" they could get back some of their readers. American newspapers like to see themselves as guardians of truth, but have, from before our founding as an sovereign nation, not only ignored, but also profited from and exacerbated our race (and class) problem(s).

The major papers, like the New York Times and The Chicago Tribune were around before slavery was abolished and have published continuosly during the 100 years of balls-out racial terror that followed. I'm sure a look through their archives would find both ads, "news" and editorials covered with the finger prints of white supremacy. I suspect one of the reasons they're so reluctant to honestly address the issue is that they'd have to reveal their own complicity in it.

If you'd like to read the whole pathetic little Tutu article (and I'm not criticizing the reporter, just the editor and publisher), scroll down past Books in the right column to my LINKS.