Media racism

In an interesting turn of events, people in the media are accusing each other of racism:

But according to several former Metro executives who were at the gala, the festivities turned suddenly and shockingly sour when Steve Nylundh, the global newspaper chain's leading North America executive, took his turn. John Wilpers, then- editor of Boston Metro, explains.

"There were fifteen or twenty tables," Wilpers recalls. "Each had put together a little presentation, and Nylund was chosen to represent his."

"I will tell a joke," Nylund announced from the front of the room.

Nylund's "joke" came in the form of a toast that centered on the length of the sexual organs of black males, whom he referred to as "niggers."

"It concerned the depth of a pool of water and the length of their penises," Wilpers says.

"Nylund began by saying, 'There were two niggers standing by a pool, and they took their dicks out,'" another participant recalls. "He went on about how one said the pool was too cold, and the other said it was too deep. I wanted to crawl under the table."

"All the Americans and the southern Europeans gasped," says Wilpers. "Someone at my table said, 'I can't believe he said that!' But the Nordics all laughed."

Wilpers says such crudely racist 'humor' was common at Metro when he worked there -- but usually not in public. "There were often jokes made in private by the northern Europeans. The corporate culture encouraged it. The company is run by people who are racist and ugly."