15. So for a half century or more, the Democrats have needed black voters to win the presidency. Harry Truman knew that.
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16. Given how crucial blacks are to liberalism & Democratic politics, TNR needed to win back the trust of black readers & writers.
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17. To make this a story about Chris Hughes & not about the countless black readers that TNR has alienated is incredibly myopic.
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18. Some personal back story: I've been reading TNR since, God help us all, 1982 or 1983.
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19. When I started reading TNR I was more conservative than I am now. I supported Progressive Conservative's Brian Mulroney &
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20. But even young, conservative-leaning Jeet Heer really, really didn't like the stuff TNR published on race.
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21. I'm not black, I'm South Asian, so I didn't take stuff in magazine personally. I did think magazine had lots of weird hang ups on race.
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22. I used to read National Review & American Spectator at same as TNR. Didn't think the three magazines any different on race.
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23. In 2010 (i.e. long before Chris Hughes bought TNR) I said magazine need to have reckoning on Peretz's racism:https://sanseverything.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/the-marty-peretz-situation/ …
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24. Me in 2010: "I don’t know how the magazine can extricate itself from Peretz at this point, but I imagine that in the future..."
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25. "...there will have to be a reckoning with his legacy."
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26. It's sad that reckoning had to come as result of the fallout of the staff turmoil, but a reckoning on race as at TNR was long overdue
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27. Also: to be as dismissive of diversity issues is to do an injustice to
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