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...week anniversary of an assault against freedom of speech. On Feb. 28, the UC-Berkeley Daily Californian ran an advertisement titled "Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Slavery is a Bad Idea--and Racist Too." The ad, sent to more than 30 college newspapers, was written by David Horowitz, a former Black Panther turned conservative activist. Its publication sparked outrage at Berkeley and elsewhere. Angry student protesters demanded an apology and the Daily Californian capitulated, running a front-page mea culpa...
...Janice M. Horowitz...
...Once a left-winger, Horowitz is now the house conservative at Salon.com, where he writes a bi-weekly column...
...Horowitz said his organization had budgeted about $12,000 for the ad campaign, an amount that put advertisements in national-circulation newspapers out of his reach. Instead, he decided to send the ad to college newspapers around the country as a less expensive alternative...
...After editing the liberal magazine Rampart in the late 1960s and 1970s, Horowitz became estranged from the civil rights movement, which he said focused more on portraying blacks as victims of past oppression than on pushing for equality...