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Since my editorial "Confederate Flags Must Vanish" appeared in The Crimson on March 5, this newspaper has received much reader mail from outraged Southerners. I expected that they would be incensed with my portrayal of Dixie, and looked forward to their responses and criticism. I was disappointed by the weakness of their counter-arguments, but then again, it's pretty challenging to defend hundreds of years of inhuman slavery and several generations of equally abhorrent Jim Crow apartheid...
...common defense of the Confederate flag is that it does not only represent Dixie's shameful history, but the better elements of the Southern tradition as well. One disgruntled reader attempted to equate the rebel flag with the U.S. flag, which has also stood for torture and murder...
Still, rest assured that I too, as the new Crimson Ombudsperson, did my research. I have, through hours in the library, gained a grasp on the role I am assuming. Perhaps a less confusing title given to the Ombudsperson, I have learned, is "Reader Representative." My job, then, as the new reader representative will be to investigate and report on reader feedback to Crimson coverage. Although I need not agree with stances taken by Crimson readers, I will ensure that readers' comments are heard by the powers-that-be. Ideally, all the material for my biweekly column will be based...
Since the ombudsperson will no longer be a staff executive, the reader representative will not be responsible for editing or proofreading stories, Braunstein said...
...attacks on the National Endowment for the Arts. "I was responding passionately to a repressive moment," she says. "Writing is an act of aggression, and I wanted to take on sexuality." Unfortunately, she takes it on too obviously. At certain points in the book, her pedophile narrator addresses the reader directly to explain that the book is not meant to shock but to show that he is really no different from us. "I am no better or worse," he insists. "A social construct supported by judge, jury and tattletales has put me away because I threaten them." In other words...