On Apologizing To Rush
No, it didn’t make me throw up in my mouth. I’m a little sick that I got it wrong, as I should be. But not sick that I have to apologize to Rush. The thing is this: I don’t think that you guys expect me to get it
writeright 100 percent of the time. I think you expect me to try very hard to be accurate, and immediately acknowledge when I’ve failed to do so. I don’t fear losing readers because I was wrong. I very much fear losing readers because they think I’m not being honest.
You can’t say fairer than that – all of us, I think, have sometimes rushed too quickly to seize upon something we think hurts the other side; it shouldn’t happen, but we’re human, and so it does…but what matters what you do when you make a mistake, and you know it. Ta-Nehisi shows us all how its done.
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