This is in further reference to the racial slur against Luol Deng with which Matt Sullivan and his editors elected to open the article on the Duke-UVa game in the Feb. 12 edition of The Chronicle.
It unfortunately would appear that Mr. Sullivan's decision to use other species as points of comparison in his descriptions of non-Caucasian basketball players has not been limited to Luol Deng. A previous gem from the vivid imagination of Mr. Sullivan has been that basketball recruit Shaun Livingston "might look like more of an alien than Sam Cassell." Messrs, Livingston and Cassell are black.
With (at least?) these two racial slurs being on Mr. Sullivan's record, I am puzzled as to why he apparently will be allowed to continue to write for The Chronicle.
Dan Caldwell
Trinity' 70
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