Word: byrds
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These assaults tend to be far more violent than those spurred by robbery--consider the horrible sight of Matthew Shepard beaten repeatedly and left to die on a fence because he was gay, or of James Byrd Jr. dragged to his death behind a truck in Texas last summer because he was black. These are among the most heinous of crimes...
Skylar H. Byrd '00, who is on the executiveboard of the Black Students Association, said shehad not heard of the hate mail...
...Usually when people write things like that,it's because of ignorance," said Byrd, who is alsoa Crimson editor...
Most heinous, in the course of the parade one man jumped behind the truck, clung to the bumper and was slowly dragged down the street--a cruel reference to the dragging death of James Byrd earlier this year in Jasper, Texas, by three white...
...More of an emphasis on what resources are available would have been helpful," says Skylar Byrd '00, who is also a Crimson editor...