John Derbyshire's article was written in the wake of the Trayvon Martin case and articles about 'the talk' black parents give children about racism. Photograph: AP The National Review has fired its contributing editor John Derbyshire after he wrote an article for a website urging white and Asian parents to tell their children to avoid black people. The National Review's editor, Rich Lowry, called the article "nasty and indefensible" while defending Derbyshire himself as "deeply literate, funny and incisive". He wrote in a statement about the article on the National Review website: "We never would have published it, but the main reason that people noticed it is that it is by a National Review...
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