Discriminations on racial preferences

John Rosenberg calmly explains the paradox. An excerpt:

It's fine for the Jayson Blairs and Janet Cookes -- and the Neil Henrys for that matter, if it's the case -- to be hired or admitted or promoted at least in part because they're black. And if they succeed, one can almost hear the unspoken chorus in the background, they're "a credit to their race." But if they fail or commit some transgression, their failure is purely and totally individual; it "has nothing to do with race or diversity efforts at all."

New York Times editor Gerald Boyd won the “Journalist of the Year” award from the National Association of Black Journalists in 2001; he had been nominated by Jayson Blair. Obviously, race was an important component to the award. So, now that things have soured, why try to disingenuously spin the Blair fiasco as a product of an individual? Can’t have it both ways.