I love these little insider Seinfeld-like kerfuffles, especially when they involve journalists and especially when they involve the sanctimonious Maureen Dowd:
Reporter Accuses Dowd of - What Else?- Blind Date Profiling
By Betsy Rothstein on May 13, 2010
Former Politico scribe Helena Andrews is calling the date that NYT columnist Maureen Dowd set her up on with Obama aide Reggie Love "racial profiling." Andrews writes about it in the latest issue of Marie Claire.
How dare Dowd assume she wants to date a black man?
A Web site called The Nytpicker has the scoop.
An excerpt "I've got a guy for you," Dowd told Andrews. "He's so hot, it's perfect." Read the rest here:
http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/online_media/reporter_accuses_dowd_of_what_else_blind_date_profiling__161520.aspThe Nytpicker says:
In the spring of 2008, NYT columnist Maureen Dowd fixed up Helena Andrews, a black former NYT assistant, on a blind date with Obama aide Reggie Love.Two years later, the woman is now accusing Dowd of "racial profiling" in arranging the unsuccessful date -- to which Love showed up an hour late and in his gym clothes. Read the rest here:
http://www.nytpick.com/2010/05/black-reporter-accuses-maureen-dowd-of.htmlMeanwhile Ms. Andrews writes in "Marie Clair":
http://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity-lifestyle/articles/living/dating-racial-profiling
Dating Dilemma: Racial Profiling
One African-American woman pleads not to be set up on a blind date with the only black professional you know.
By Helena Andrews
"I've got a guy for you. He's so hot, it's perfect." It was the spring of '08 when Maureen Dowd, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist, decided to take it upon herself to find me a man — specifically, Reggie Love, Barack Obama's "body guy" (read: personal aide). Standing outside the auditorium in Philadelphia where Obama the candidate had just given his loaded race speech, I thought to myself, How could a woman I'd helped with a computer problem once as an assistant at the Times spot the man for me? "Don't be silly," she said, when I demurred. "My assistant will set it up."
I was 27 and working as the only black reporter at Politico.com when a black man was running for president. The issue of race in America had hit a fever pitch, and suddenly everyone seemed determined to cast me as Michelle redux — and all that was missing was my very own Barack. [...]
... I'm not saying that my colleagues and neighbors should have set me up with white friends, necessarily. I was just disappointed that, despite all my more awesome qualities, the main thing they all saw was my skin.
Recently, my mother met a black man at Ikea, gave him my card, and then yelled at me when I raised the obvious psycho-killer issues. She said he was nice, a lawyer. Like Maureen, Mom was playing into the kind of stereotypes I was trying to dodge. But I realized that both women just wanted to see me happy. And, even though I was grateful Ikea guy never called, I know that the more weird setups I endure, the better my chances of getting to Mr. Right, whatever his race.
Helena Andrews's memoir, Bitch Is the New Black (HarperCollins), is out this month. She writes a weekly column for Slate's TheRoot.com.
Read the rest here:http://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity-lifestyle/articles/living/dating-racial-profiling
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Besides - I always hated being set-up by friends for blind dates during the many years I was single... I liked being single at the time...
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