I belive you are confusing GLS (Guy Steele, the 'I' in the story) with Eric S. Raymond, the, eh... curator of The Jargon File.

The quote in your comment is from Raymond who is indeed quite racist.

Accepting arguendo that your claims are correct: What do they have to do with the magic / more magic grounding switch?

Assuming this is supposed to be about ESR, this page isn't written by him, since it's signed by someone else…