An open letter to the WaPo Magazine
To the Washington Post Magazine editorial staff, in response to this article.
Allow me to point out, aside from the patently racist, racial-centric worldview of which this entire article reeks, that the quote “Breonna Taylor was fatally shot while she slept in her bed” in the article is an easily disprovable statement. Even a simple Google search would show that it was a lie debunked since at least last year.
The fact you published a repugnant article like this on your website speaks volumes about your moral compass (or the lack thereof).
And the fact you allowed a factually incorrect, yet inflammatory lie to be included in the article speaks volumes about your journalistic integrity and competence (or the lack thereof).
In other words: you are the very reason why our country is so divided. Because the more divisiveness there is, the more articles like this you’ll get publish — which, then, continue to fill up your insatiable pockets.
Indeed, I know my opinions probably won’t matter to you, since I’m not a racist person that can’t stand living in a multiracial society and yearns for a racially “pure” environment (or in your own words, “want[s] the ability to move among people who look like me” — as if this wasn’t the exact same line spewed by segregationists in the 1950s). But let me end with the words of Korean historian and activist Bak Eunsik (1859–1925):
“Alas! When the nation itself can no longer stand intact, will such factions that place their own interests above the country ultimately be able to preserve their ill-gotten gains?”
嗚呼! 國之不存, 彼政黨之但願其私, 不恤其國者, 果能獨饗其利乎?
朴殷植(박은식)