I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.

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.