Hate flyers don’t
help our situation
Love those hate flyers.
Office of Public Safety officers and janitorial staff
recently found about 100 copies of two racist, anti-ho
mosexual flyers in and around the EMU. The flyers
screamed: "Special rights means less rights for whites!
No special rights for dykes!" and "Hey fags your life
stinks."
Yep, right here at the University, where phrases
like "cultural diversity" appear often in textbooks and
classroom lectures but horribly infrequently in real life.
The flyers, whit h were found about two weeks ago.
appeared prior to the 1. A. beating verdict and subse
quent rioting. Interestingly, a good portion of the
crowd listening at the
university s rally protest
ing the verdict was white
This is a good sign. It
show s some of those need
ing to listen are listening.
There's a heck of ,1 lot of
ignorant e that needs to lie
addressed, racially spe,ik
ing as well as otherwise,
and it will take a heavy
dose of t.liking and listen
ing to liegm to resolve it
It also shows that a lot
of whites are supporting
minority groups on this
t ampus, and hopeful!) in
this town, and thankfully
aren’t at home writing im
liocilir hate flyers When
When flyers like
these show up,
it’s easy to
assume every
white
heterosexual
either
participated in
the writing of
them or supports
their distribution.
This is an untrue
supposition.
rivers like triese snow up.
it's easv to assume every white heterosexual either par
ticipateti in the writing of them or supports their distn
tuition This is an untrue supposition.
t he hate flyers are no doubt the work of a select
few who fail to adequately represent the larger body of
white heterosexual students Unfortunately, fivers like
these only serve to heighten thicken the walls dividing
people rather than build necessary bridges
Hut then that’s probably what the authors want. It's
.in indisputable truth that when animals, including hu
mans. feel threatened and afraid, they isolate them
selves while lashing out for proter lion The fiver au
thors easily fit tile bill.
Hlacks. as well as homosexuals, have the same
rights to walk this campus as do the fiver supporters
In fact, those hate supporters should think twice about
airing their stance next time because it's looking like
there’s a whole lot less of them than thev mav think
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Eugene mob sends wrong message
I THE FINE
I PRINT
■ V GERRIT KOEPPING
The ru 1!v .1! I hr i-.Ml ( lourl
v.1 r<i warned ui violence
Speakers who railed for
violent protest to the I- A heat
trig vetdl( !•• w 1 re i heered while
more moderate voices were
heckled Our \SUQ jiresident
Jennifer Hills ( ailed ior a revo
Iu!tor. a (.ill that was applaud
ed hv the gathered uudlem e
I'he impromptu man h fnl
Ic■ vs 111)4 the speiH hes w as your
standard Kugemr tare Semi-eo
herein slogans were chanted
okes ria demented m.ultra No
douhi the chant of people
III:.ted we II III ver he d IV uied
sent a shudder through the
Wan
But despite the (hunt, the
people oil; e the\ reached the
!• eder 1 i Build ing w ere not
united While most o! the
rl.iWil llollg ha. k gr I . p s id
voting men started pounding
oil the windows ui the federal
Building after they found they
coiilil not get 111 t he same peu
pie w had p.il tlteinseh es
forward .is leaders at the rallv
now resem! led a niuh lei loose
ri the 1 cder.il Buid mg The
ai' ui. 11: i-ak ii:g ot one w 1 n
dow led to more delllierate de
struction of sortie expensive
vs11 i i i.!vss
This certainly vsas not the
(ii;i trine of non violeni e tfi.it
Dr Martin Luther Kirijj os
poused This was jusl a mob
vs ith ail tin' ugliness ami brutal
ity tiia! i onus vs ith a mob
Hut bei ause a mol) thrives
.;n!v m ehsi ur;tv it was no sur
prise- vs).an it turned its aggres
sion t; -• the media W fieri a
young vs n :! e male attacked a
Ki'ffis ’rr lit;an/ photographer
The vs minded man vs as hustled
into the 1 ■ m!dmg vs ith bloody
nose an t ! token glasses
. In VI- den e would likely
have spread hud d not been for
the , ... tag i ■ ■ ! .. single Woman
vs In. lover,! the retreat of the
photograpfier hy clutching at
her hr a A ami st feaniing, “Stop
it’ Stop it* She ni i lr a spet la
s’ :t* u! htTsfil. fml she stopped
As tlii* t rovvd quieted, there
suddenly seerned to In* self
st\ Ini I.*.i.it-rs evervwhere Onr
spti.ik.rr further calmed the
i rimii hv urging them to r.nse a
silent fist in protest
As the violence at the federal
Building subsided, with a
wounded photographer and
SJO.OOO worth of damage to the
building, iam | a Kd wards
spoke Her primary concern
seemed to hint* fxien negative
press coverage At her bidding,
die crowd started to chant,
‘Cut the i arneras By then,
however. It was a little late for
spin i ontrol
Indeed, newly reelected stu
dent senator Brian Hoop got a
lovely photo of himself on the
front page of The Register
t! wilt: ins tout through a
w indnw
After the V lii! eli< e I asked
pee; -* what they felt about
wtiat iiad JUs! happened The
response tended to be that it
vs.isn't right, hut that frustrated
people turn to violence Mv
other favorite response was that
the action was sure to send a
message, and it was appropriate
for the moment
None ot tfie people who had
earlier advocated violence felt
responsible lor what had hup
period
When I heard these rti
sponses. I vvds remirnimi of u si
mil.ir denial of responsibility It
i ami' from Tom Metzger. who
hud l»rn Irifd (or in< lting the
murder of an Kthiopian immi
grant in I'ortlund, he also de
nied responsibility lor violent e
that ix i urred after hi' had advo
cated it
M\ point here is the people
who took, part in the riot
should in no was he proud or
rationalize vsh.il they did It
had nothing to do with justice,
it had nothing to do with Und
oes kmg It was just a hunch ol
cowardly, childish opportun
ists who used the situation lo
break things
As !. ; th st- people who in
i tied th*1 v tolent e and then de
nied any responsibility. ! admit
tics hast the right to speak as
they vsish Hut vsith r,gilts also
.times responsibility, which
they l.u k
II those who condemned tlii‘
violent r truly w.mini to stop it.
they surf didn't show it while
it w .is occurring I’eople who
w.ml to i ritii i/f thf polit e offi
i its for lining nothing while
king w.is brulali/.ed should re
member th.it thorn worn .1 lot of
people who did nothing when
the photographer was att.n ked
Hut one thing (lies were right
about is this whole incident
sending a message
One message went to Doha
rah Deals Drowning, who is an
assistant attorney tor the U.S
Attorney's office She is run
rung the criminal investigation
of the incident In far t. she got
the message so well that the
federal Bureau of Investigation
is now involved That's right
kiddies you made it to the big
time This was destrut lion of
federal property not pist tear
ing down some University ban
ner You’re not in Kansas any
more, and the people running
this slims aren't : aliipus sec.uri
ty
Another message went to Un
voting public, whose represen
tatives will soon he asked to de
cide -whether or not to cut the
higher edui alion budget (ail
ting tin- budget will now lie eas
ier bet ansi- television viewers
witnessed University- students
as y oung vandals yy ho see mor
al responsibility and ethical
conduct as optional parts to
tfit;ir personulltv
finally. the violence distrui i
i'll from what should have been
a fo< us on the injustice of the
verdict, to a locus on violence
Mans people now feel more
vulnerable and more likely to
trust polite now that they've
seen what the police are pro
let ting them against
Hv tlie wav. don't he sur
prised it Hush suddenly
changes his strategy and gets
re elected on a law and-order
platform
Hie incident has hurt tin'
I niversitv. its students and the
cause of racial justice No one
should he proud of what hap
pened It was mob brutality at
its ugliest
('.err it A>. w/i/nng is a commu
nity hrnt reporter tor the limer
aid