Just yesterday, the CU Denver newspaper wrote a couple of " April Fools" articles. that wrote of topics like health-care, illegal immigrants "Dear White Guys" and eating babies or the elderly. I quote in an article called, "Enjoy Obamacare If You Like Payin for Illegal Mexicans", " say goodbye to the land of the free because AMERICA is now the land of socialism and forced abortions." The author even misspelled a lot of words. I'm not sure if it was supposed to be humorous or if thats how he usually writes. These articles have taken an April Fool's day joke to one of discrimination and unnecessary demeanor from the CU Denver paper. It is interesting that a school, CU Denver and probably a CU student writer, did not receive any criticism by his boss or was asked any questions. It makes one think that some individuals are just trying to stir up unnecessary information involving racism and prejudices. In our country, we do have the first amendment rights, but it is not proper for a school like CU Denver, to display any form of discrimination, when clearly they do not care that this article would not attract students of different races and ethnic backgrounds. I also think that CU Denver,wants to keep a reputation of being an anti-discriminatory school and not cause controversial acts over many problems that University of Colorado has had in past. If you are interested in reading the original Forum article please copy & paste the link below. There will be a rally on Monday, April 5th from 11 to 2.
http://www.ucdadvocate.com/theforum/the-hairy-eyeball-enjoy-obamacare-if-you-like-payin-for-illegal-mexicans-1.1290635
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