‘My two cents’. That is the title of a column the Enterprise-Journal created last year. Now, speaking directly to you, Jack Ryan, editor to editor, I say: shame on you!

As the managing editor for your newspaper, you have the right to layout and publish your newspaper as you see fit. I am not challenging this right. Why would I? We layout and publish our newspaper as we see fit.

Ninety to ninety-five percent of what we print in the Mississippi Tribune each week, you will not find in your newspaper. Our newspaper is an African American newspaper, written, published, managed and owned by Black people. Your newspaper is like a lot of the daily newspapers in America, written, published, managed and owned by white people, and written from a white point of view.

I am writing this to make sure that you and your primary readers understand this. The Black community has always understood this. You control it. You write it. It is your story. From you it is “his-story” (history... [Read More]

I had planned on writing about news and events that may impact the local community at a state or national level over the next several months. However, I have found a topic that I feel requires me to lend my observations and opinions here locally and immediately: Editor Jack Ryan and The Enterprise-Journal.

And I have so much to say to you, as a respresentative of the Black community down here in Southwest Misssissippi. This is going to take a lot of newspaper issues to get it all out. So, let me start with an introductory letter:
Shame on you.

You have an award winning newspaper that I have a great deal of respect for and I am a subscriber of. But you are treating me and people like me with the same contempt that your predecesors demonstrated to Black people.

And, why wouldn’t you? You’ve never been faced with Black people in control of local government, or even having our own newspaper to add “balance” to what has been a consistently unbalance news media.
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