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The importance of being civil

By Scoop Jackson
Page 2

Friday, October 6, 2006

A FEW YEARS AGO, I decided to become a sports columnist. I had idols. People in the game I respected. Looked up to. Only a few of them were black. Jason Whitlock was one of them. A FEW MONTHS AGO, in a column in The Kansas City Star, columnist Jason Whitlock responded to a column I wrote here on Page 2. He had issues with the column, he had issues with me. I wrote a column that dealt with the politics of race within sports journalism. In the column, I told a story of educating a group of ...

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