How did this get by unnoticed?

You are correct, Norrin.

Back in the day, I mentioned one of our teams would play Compton in the next round of the CIF (can't remember which sport here) playoffs and that the Tarbabes were seeded.

An editor (obviously more astute than those desking at the Baltimore Sun) wondered WTF I was on for writing that. I told him that's their mascot, opened the CIF directory and pointed it out to him.

His eyes retracted back in his shaking head and nary a word was said as he went back to editing my story.

 

That's what I was saying (though I substituted Canadians). Yes it has.

 

Sun is not a particularly well-edited paper, despite having a prominent AME for copy. Still, through breathing air this reference should have been challenged.

 

Wasn't a fan of the diversity checklist being brought into the thread....so I had to bring it up.

Sometimes it's just about people sucking at their jobs.

 

That's about the same reaction I had when I first edited a story that included Compton High's nickname.

I looked it up, triple-checked it with people who know better, and ... reluctantly ... left it in.

 

Apparently he's not the only person in Baltimore having problems with slurs. Check this out.
TOWSON, Md. — A Baltimore County employee who was demoted and transferred after she complained of co-workers’ “jungle-bunny music” in the office, is seeking to have the punishment overturned.
Graceann Shipe, 42, says she did not know the term is considered racially offensive, attorney C. Stephen Basinger told The Baltimore Examiner, and is appealing in Baltimore County Circuit on the grounds that a statement isn’t a racial slur if it wasn’t intended as one.
“She didn’t realize the statement could have been thought of as harmful and had no intention of doing that,” Basinger said. “She has a history of being open to everyone.”
According to county records, Shipe was supervising clerical staff in the county’s code enforcement office in March when she asked a white co-worker to turn down a “Journey” song on the radio because she didn’t want to listen to “their jungle-bunny music.” She gestured toward the desks of two black co-workers as she spoke.
Shipe testified before a personnel board that said she used the term because the music reminded her of “the Energizer bunny, loud and obnoxious with noisy, banging cymbals.”

 

Might have been covered already, but in the M*A*S*H movie AND in the early parts of the TV show, a character named "Spearchucker" Jones was featured. THe character didn't make it much beyond the pilot, for obvious reasons.

 

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A source at The Sun told me about this a couple days after it ran. She said the analogy only ran in one of the paper's five -- or six -- editions editions, and the writer hadn't yet been disciplined. In a city like Baltimore -- and, probably anywhere -- that should be a fireable offense.

 

Your source is correct. Word is that something may be coming down soon but not fast enough for some tastes.

 

I'm hearing now that NOTHING may happen to the writer. I can't believe it.

 

So, what you're saying is, something might happen or it might not?