'We're White': Virginia Newspaper's Radical Confession Gets Swift Pushback

'We're White': Virginia Newspaper's Radical Confession Gets Swift Pushback
On 1/22/21 at 1:37 PM EST
A Virginia newspaper's acknowledgment that the team behind its new reporting series about segregation in Norfolk is white drew heated responses from readers on social media.
The Virginian-Pilot introduced its series, called "Dividing Lines," on Thursday with an overview of the racial segregation that exists in the city as a result of decades of policy and development decisions. The series is intended to be a long-term project and will seek input from readers through a designated tip line, the paper wrote.
In a separate article also published on Thursday, the paper introduced the two reporters behind the series and their editor, all of whom "benefit from numerous privileges that the disadvantaged populations highlighted in this project do not," according to a tweet from the paper.

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