{"id":14251,"date":"2010-02-24T19:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T03:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=14251"},"modified":"2010-02-24T22:54:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T06:54:59","slug":"stab-magazines-jed-smith-apologizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=14251","title":{"rendered":"Stab Magazine&#8217;s Jed Smith Apologizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/jedsmith.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/jedsmith.jpg','popup','width=425,height=261,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/jedsmith-tm.jpg\" height=\"122\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Jedsmith\" \/><\/a>After using an &#8220;n-word&#8221; in a <strong>Stab Magazine <\/strong>website story about how black surfers are better than white surfers (specifically Jamaica&#8217;s <strong>Icah Wilmot<\/strong>) got <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blackathlete.net\/artman2\/publish\/X_Sports_32\/A_Stab_In_The_Dark.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">people <\/a><\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/surfandthefury.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/kiss-my-black-stab-magazine.html\" target=\"_blank\">talking <\/a><\/strong>(via <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyrusisboard.com\/2010\/02\/stab-magazine-publishes-article-with.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cyrusisboard.com<\/a><\/strong>) and lost the magazine a &#8220;coveted advertising relationship,&#8221; Stab&#8217;s <strong>Jed Smith<\/strong> says he has now experienced the &#8220;first significant self-examination&#8221; of his writing career.<\/p>\n<p>After speaking with Icah&#8217;s father <strong>Bill Willmot<\/strong>, it appears Jed has turned things around and apologized.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am ignorant of the sensitivities that surround race today. I am white, privileged and grew up in an era in which white-black relations were not the defining racial issue (hence my use of the word Negro, a term that after recently reading the Malcolm X autobiography, I legitimately thought was politically correct). I have no right to proffer stereotypes, whether they were intended to be satirical or not, and I am sorry. Sorry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apologies are hard and Jed did a great job with this one. We just hope he can get past this, lesson learned, and then remember that his ignorance is also one of his greatest gifts. The world has enough &#8220;thoughtful&#8221; old surf writers already. Seriously.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stabmag.com\/jed\/an-apology-to-the-wilmot-family\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stab Magazine<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After using an &#8220;n-word&#8221; in a Stab Magazine website story about how black surfers are better than white surfers (specifically Jamaica&#8217;s Icah Wilmot) got people talking (via Cyrusisboard.com) and lost the magazine a &#8220;coveted advertising relationship,&#8221; Stab&#8217;s Jed Smith says he has now experienced the &#8220;first significant self-examination&#8221; of his writing career. After speaking with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14251"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14251"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14261,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14251\/revisions\/14261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}