This is nonsense, and dangerous nonsense at that. Anyone who cannot handle ideas they disagree with in a civil manner without name-calling, mob actions or intimidating letters is not worthy to be part of a university community, let alone responsible for administering one.
Administrators have no excuse, either, for being unable to read plain English.
Not surprisingly, neither the letter nor the previous ad attack on the Herald has produced a shred of evidence to support these slanders. Virtually every idea in my reparations ad has previously been proposed in print, by such important African-American scholars as Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams. The white men who profited by their labor and lives are dead also. I have no personal memory of those times and no responsibility for them. Neither has the grandson of the man who held my folks .