Not only that, but you don’t even know your facts. “A few black students got angry”? A whole hell of a lot of black students got angry, and not only that, the University had to listen while upset prospective students and their parents announced that their children wouldn’t be attending Clemson. The community had to watch while people around the nation rolled their eyes at South Carolina. In an area of the country where racial prejudice is so prevalent, the last thing that Clemson needed was for this to happen. White people don’t need to walk on eggshells when it comes to race relations, but many of them need to learn to show some respect and dignity.
And…
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s holiday is not a “black holiday”. Dr. King was an American hero, not a “black hero”. He was a champion of social progress and racial equity, something that, while clearly not all whites appreciate, everyone should.

Your comments are indicative of your ignorance, and it’s people like you, who deny the existence of racism, that perpetuate it.

What I simply cannot abide, however, is what I read in your January publication. There were four articles in the issue that directly referenced Christians, and, save for Todd May’s article, I found them all to be utterly inaccurate and insulting to me as a Christian. Because of the breadth of discussion on the matter of our “ignorant” faith – every time Bryan Cockfield mentioned Christians, our name was preceded by that word – it is impossible for me to do what I first intended: answer each in terms of its specific content. But I feel it is more to the heart of the matter, in any case, to simply express the outrage I feel at having my Lord’s Name blasphemed and my brothers in Christ denigrated in the press. If nothing else, you simply must know that we have read your words and abhor them.

What a wonder that you allow your writers to draft articles concerning Christianity when none of the ones who have done so thus far seem to know a thing about Jesus Christ – that goes for you, too, Michael Schnibben. One would think that, since there is apparently such a vast interest in the Truth that you all would start asking more questions instead of handing down your anti-dogma; if you want to know what Christianity really is, you might open your ears wider and stop running your mouths.

Of course, the obvious question in your minds is: What if we just laugh you off as the fanatic that you are, Christian?

If you were expecting threats, you will find none here. Nor do I wish to abridge your freedoms in the press. What possible good would that do? And, of course, I know we will certainly not get a letter from President Barker expressing disappointment at the “activities [of a local newspaper] that appeared to mock and disparage [Christians].” No, for all to be put to right, we do not long for a temporal recompense, but for the Judgment of the earth to come. Meanwhile, I would ask, though the penalty may, in this age, be only my own fierce indignation, and though that result may merely amuse you, that you leave us out of your musings and tirades until you have come to believe.
Other than that, this is a great newspaper.

D. Aaron Wells

Maybe the gangsta party was just a way for the students to cope with a holiday that holds no meaning for them or their families. It is apparent that black students are able to control the college by merely mentioning Racism. Black Americans need to accept their blackness. We already have.

Scott Hines