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Playboy invents a 'Black KKK' controversy

Fri May 02, 2008 at 08:38:29 AM PDT

This is one of those stories where you can just see that someone is going to end up apologizing and/or resigning.

Jason Whitlock, a black columnist for the Kansas City Star, wrote a column for Playboy magazine that is to appear in the May 9 edition. According to Whitlock, the column wil have a headline that will read:

“The Black KKK.” A subheadline will state: “Hip Hop is killing Black America, and it’s time to do something about it.”

Whitlock says this is a complete distortion of what he wrote with the intention of generating a controversy and ginning a racial controversy. Playboy has even, Whitlock says, tried to drag Barack Obama into it by accusing him of being unable to stop this "Black KKK."

Here is what Whitlock says the column is about:


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