From the Arizona Daily Star:
President Bush’s re-election campaign insisted on knowing the race of an Arizona Daily Star journalist assigned to photograph Vice President Dick Cheney.
The Star refused to provide the information.
*****Journalists covering the president or vice president must undergo a background check and are required to provide their name, date of birth and Social Security number. The Star provided that information Thursday for Popat and this reporter.
“That’s all anybody has been asked to provide,” said Hayt, adding that this is the first time in her 26-year career that a journalist’s race was made an issue.
First of all, race does not exist as proven by the Human Genome project. Only when society excepts this “revalation” can the World move forward.
Second, this type of ethnocentric action by the Administration is simply par for the course.
When are Americans going to wise up?