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| BEYOND THE HEDGES: Student columnist receives multiple death threats |
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Death threats are usually reserved for the movies, national security issues and
terrorist situations, but not for a columnist discussing Martin Luther King
Jr.
Pete Radovich, a student columnist for the Texas Christian University Daily Skiff, believed that, until he received a death threat of his own. "Late at night the phone rang," he said. "It was a male voice, and he said, `You motherf---er nigger lover, if you ever publish something like that again I will kill you.'" The phone call was in response to a column Radovich wrote dealing with the Confederate flag as a "symbol of racial bigotry in the South." The column stated that the flag should no longer be flown. Later that night, Radovich received another phone call. When Radovich questioned the caller, the caller responded by saying, "Don't ever tell me a black man is equal to a white man again, or I will kill you." Rodovich reported the incident to the police but received five more harassing phone calls from, he believes, the same person. "I am here living in the 1990s facing death threats because of my views on equality," he said. "The scariest thing is not that I received five death threats in one night but that people like that live in our society." Source: TCU Daily Skiff, Feb. 19.
This item appeared in the News section of the March 14, 1997 issue. |
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