Outrage Spreads as Local NYC Newspaper Headline Calls President Obama the N-Word

By Julissa Catalan


A West Village newspaper shocked localsand now the nationwith its most recent July edition by publishing an op-ed column with the headline “The N-word in the White House.”

The WestView News article, written by James Lincoln Collier, is actually a pro-Obama piece that criticizes conservatives, saying, “These far-right voters hate Obama because he is Black. The simple truth is that there is still in America an irreducible measure of racism.”

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