The following is the unedited full text of a statement issued by the editorial staff of the Princeton Tiger to a letter from Black Student Union President Candace Lee '06.
We at Tiger Magazine greatly value the opinions of the student body, and so were disappointed to hear how grossly the BSU chose to misinterpret an article in our publication.
Maybe we should follow the BSU's lead and confront such real Facebook groups as "Woman? Fine By Me!" and "The Elders of Zion." We could go so far as to be offended at their names without looking below the surface; alternatively, we could take humor as humor and keep outrage in check.
As the BSU is a group committed to fostering "an inclusive environment for minority students," we are troubled by their instinct to divide. It is disturbing that the BSU's first impulse was to take a joke which targeted no particular race and mutate it into an affront against the African-American experience. Perhaps the BSU should consider that their response contributes to racial divisions on our campus, rather than dismantling them.
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