"Newspaper Burning Is a Racist Act"

"Newspaper Burning Is a Racist Act"

This letter from Jonathan Patrick reiterates many of the points brought up by Rom and Crisp and continues a trend of name-calling and racial escalation in the newspaper since the UNC-Chapel Hill rally. The letter continues to compare African American organizations to the KKK and other white supremacy organizations and calls Malcolm X and the use of the X last name as a symbol of pro-violence.

Jonathan Patrick

Jonathan Patrick, "Newspaper Burning is a Racist Act," The Technician vol. LXXIV no. 21 (September 30, 1992), 9.

1992-09-30

Cheryl Dong

newspaper article

Destroying the paper won’t destroy the truth. After the wonderful demonstration we had in which students burned copies of Technician because of an article they did not like, I think we can now place the BAC in the same category with other racist-extremist book-burning groups like the KKK and Hitler’s Nazi party.

Why is it that when whites do something like they did it is racism but it is not racism when blacks commit the same atrocities? Why is it that black students can have racist organizations like the BAC when an Anglo-Saxon Awareness Council was started you could imagine the cries of racism? Why is it that a white person cannot display a Dixie flag (which I don’t agree with, come on folks the war is over) or any other supposedly pro-white material when blacks parade around in shirts saying Black power and other bigoted slogans? And why are blacks allowed to display the X as a symbol of the pro-violence, anti-white teachings of Malcolm X when the X is comparable to the burning cross of the KKK?

The answer to all these questions is that when a white person does such things it is labeled racism but if a black person does the same things it is called pride. This philosophy is wrong and must be changed. All the things above are racist regardless of who committed the offense.

newspaper article