The Yale Daily News has completely excised comments made by Rise Nelson Burrow, director of Yale’s Afro-American Cultural Center, from an article which The College Fix quoted extensively back on November 12.
The student paper’s correction reads “A previous version of this story attributed unauthorized comments to Risë Nelson, director of the Afro-American Cultural Center. She has been removed from the article. The News regrets the error.”
“Unauthorized?” What does that mean, exactly?
The Fix had quoted the YDN’s original report of Burrow having said “that the backs of the [various alleged comedy troupe protest] signs contained additional messages” which “included references to black criminality, violence and acts of rape.”
“The words were strong and scary enough that the students who saw it were shaken and scared,“ Nelson [Burrow] said. “It’s bad that something like this would happen at a time when students are already so fragile.”
Nelson added that she and one of the two students who found the signs filed the police report together.
This sounds suspiciously like Yale officials weren’t too happy about the director’s remarks. Or, that Ms. Burrow had second thoughts and wanted her comments edited out.
Whatever the case, emails to the authors of the article were not returned.
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