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Jayson Blair

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I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.


— Jayson Blair


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If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?


— Jayson Blair


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It's hard to say what role race really played in my case.


— Jayson Blair


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It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you.


— Jayson Blair


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Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive.


— Jayson Blair


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Some people it seems to me would like for me to crawl in a hole and disappear forever. That's just not in my nature.


— Jayson Blair


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Well the first thing I'd say is that I'm not sure exactly what I'm supposed to do to show my remorse other than to say that I'm remorseful.


— Jayson Blair


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When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.


— Jayson Blair


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You face racism in small and large ways.


— Jayson Blair


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You know I am done lying. Obscuring the truth is no longer something I have any interest in doing. I want it all to come out. The good, the bad, the ugly.


— Jayson Blair


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About Jayson Blair






Did you know about Jayson Blair?

In the April 7 2003 piece "For One Pastor the War Hits Home" Blair wrote of a church service in Cleveland and an interview with the minister. A scene in Gilmore Girls episode "The Reigning Lorelai" (4. And while these agitators won't admit it the nasty subtext to their attack is that there is something inherently wrong with blacks.

Jayson Blair (born March 23 1976) is an American life coach and journalist formerly with The New York Times. He resigned from the newspaper in May 2003 in the wake of the discovery of plagiarism and fabrication in his stories.

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