The Week That Perished - Taki's Magazine - Taki's Magazine

The Week That Perished - Taki's Magazine - Taki's Magazine: We’re not even going to check his Wikipedia page to verify ethnicity, but from what we can tell, The New York Times’ executive editor Dean Baquet—pronounced like “bouquet” but with a “buh” instead of a “boo”—appears to be about seven or eight percent black. We’re also going to assume it’s that magical voodoo seven percent of pure chocolatey blackness that landed him such a formerly prestigious position, because he is neither attractive nor talented, nor does he appear to be very intelligent. We’re not saying that because he’s black, because nerdy black guys who look like he does tend to skew more intelligent, but once this guy opens his mouth, it’s immediately apparent that he goes against this stereotype, which may be part of his brilliance.

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