Imagine my surprise upon sitting down for breakfast and opening Thursday’s Daily to find a full page dedicated to some obviously racist author spouting of at the mouth about civil rights in the ad “Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Slavery is a Bad Idea – and Racist Too.”

I can’t believe that the Daily is so strapped for cash that they would allow this David Horowitz person to take out a full-page ad in which he gets to rant and rave about why African-Americans should not receive reparations for slavery.

I’d like to take this moment to point out a couple of flaws within Horowitz’s reasoning.

Reason VI states, “No scientific attempt has been made to prove that living individuals have been adversely affected by a slave system that was ended nearly 150 years ago.”

Is a scientific attempt really needed when it is obvious how African Americans are grossly underpaid in this nation in comparison to our European counterparts?

Or how African Americans, while being a smaller faction of society, make up an overwhelming majority of the prison population?

If these examples aren’t good enough for the students here at Iowa State, how about coming out Monday, April 16 at 7 p.m. to Carver 18 where there will be a Town Hall meeting to discuss the incident that occurred over last weekend in which an African-American Ames High student was threatened to be lynched by a number of White ISU students?

I’m pretty sure many of you didn’t know about this, since the Black Student Alliance didn’t have the funds to take out a full-page ad like Mr. Horowitz did.

Not to say that the Daily is totally bad. I send my highest regards to Carmen Cerra for his cartoon in Thursday’s Daily that helped everyone realize what Mr. Horowitz’s ad on page 6 really was – racist garbage!

On a final note, if Mr. Horowitz decides to take out another full-page ad to spew his racist views to the ISU family, I propose a new heading for the ad: “Ten Reasons Why I’m a Racist Jerk” by David Horowitz.

Arthur Alfred

Sophomore

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