What would you pay for Iraq?

“$24 and smallpox-infested blankets.” – Jessica Gabriel, first-year student.

Smallpox infested blankets were used as an instrument of genocide by the US government on the native population of North America. Perhaps Ms Gabriel has never met anyone different from herself and realized that they too are human beings; perhaps her education has been lacking; perhaps she thought it was a cute answer. What were the editors of the Clarion thinking? Printing racist filth in the absence of a story or editorial comment is not newsworthy or educational. It is printing racist filth.

Andrea Cunningham