The Middle Finger Having Writ . . . . 0
(Open tag fixed)
William Jones, president of a small Christian* college in the midwest, tells his tale. Here’s how he begins:
They drew a chalk outline of a dead body with the words “rest in peace my friend” and “make Lindsborg white again.” They wrote messages that were disgusting and completely contrary to Bethany’s core values and intellectual identity.
A few days later, a man who is not a student at Bethany and does not even live in Lindsborg called my office at the college to say that he and four other people were the ones who had committed this despicable act. He refused to disclose who his companions were, and no others have admitted to participating. And then he said something chilling: He said that he wrote the chalk messages because Bethany College has been recruiting students of color – and because I have adopted two biracial children.
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*I’ve not heard of his school, but I must say that it sounds like a “Christian” college in the “Christian” sense of the word, rather than in the “conservative” sense of the word.
