East Bay Express Publisher Resigns Over N-Word

Stephen Buel will step down as publisher of the Oakland-based alt-weekly East Bay Express and sell its parent company following a "brief transition period," he announced this week after apologizing for using a racial slur in a June staff meeting. After reading associate editor Azucena Rasilla's coverage of the three-day BottleRock Napa Valley music festival—in which, among other things, Rasilla expressed discomfort at hearing white festival-goers sing the N-word during rapper E-40's set—Rasilla says Buel called her, editor-in-chief Kathleen Richards, and managing editor Janelle Bitker into a meeting to discuss Rasilla's coverage, which Rasilla claims Buel felt was "racist against white people." “You know, if a rapper puts it in his lyrics, it’s free game for anyone to say [the N-word]," Rasilla quotes Buel as saying in the meeting. Rasilla says Buel later apologized for removing the articles in question without consulting her or Bitker, but not for his choice of words in the meeting. Rasilla resigned in protest, as did calendar editor Beatrice Kilat. "While referring to hateful words subsequently reclaimed by the communities they once oppressed, I said a couple of those words aloud," wrote Buel in a post on the East Bay Express website Friday evening. "I should not have done so and am extremely sorry that my remark caused others pain." The same evening, Richards—who has served as the weekly's editor-in-chief since last August—announced plans to resign at the end of the... Continue reading at 'Folio Magazine'

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