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You really should get rid of Charles Davenport. I'm posting this here because comments are disabled on his article. In his latest article, he tries to argue that the NSM is from trailer parks, which is clearly a class based insult which is not only incorrect, but it obscures the problem by trying to blame poor white people for racism.
He's also a huge fan of blaming men of color for not being father figures without recognizing that there is a score of reasons (such as racial profiling and our government's preference of prisons over rehabilitation) for this besides his racist assertions.

I'm well aware that he isn't being published in the news section, but if you're publishing such a reactionary rightist (which you shouldn't be allowing space for racism and classism in your pages, especially on a regular basis) then you should allow for more radical writers to be published in the N&R as well.

By the way, do you really not have anything else to talk about on your blog than this issue? I'd hope as the editor of a daily newspaper you'd have a little more to say on other issues too. Change the topic already.

It is always curious to me when people are so intent on snuffing out other views. And when they tell other people what they should be writing about.

Speaking of snuffing out other views, why aren't your readers allowed to comment on Davenport's column?

Readers are encouraged to write letters to the editor about that column. I suspect the editorial folks have gotten some.

Oh, you mean, in online comments? I will defer to Allen Johnson, who is Davenport's "boss." However, I will say that it isn't uncommon for us not to enable comments on content where we expect comments that violate our terms of use.

The N&R does need people to tell them what to write. If they cannot pay for employees to write, they could include outstanding material from the New York Times or the Washington Post. I know you have only so much money for newsprint. However, you could reduce the size of pictures and replace them with adult content. You get more readers by putting any more hard news and analysis and less puff stuff. The Board of Education writer may report items that were addressed at a meeting, days after the meeting. Some of the news writers need to take lessons from the sports writers. We want a writer to keep their feet to the fire. Problems should come out in the paper long before the Board of Education issues a Press Release. For instance the lack of progress fixing the Oak Ride air quality problem is only reported when GCS has something to say.

I thank you for withholding info on the neo-nazi's, I wish you would do the same with Nelson Johnson and the Pulpit Forum. I hold all three in the same mold.