The national chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality, Roy Innis, has come to the defense of suspended Variety editor Peter Bart. In an interview with the online media magazine Inside, Innis indicated that he agreed with remarks made by Bart about blacks that appeared in a Los Angeles Magazine article that led to his suspension. “I find such allegations of his bigotry to be false and absurd,” the CORE chairman said in a written statement. “We have lost the meaning of racism in this society because of hypersensitivity and hypocrisy,” he added.
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