Thread: NC: Newspaper smacked down by 12th grader over IAs

Winston-Salem Journal Fishwrap smacked down by 12th grader:


A Majority
Tuesday, December 11, 2007

In response to the editorial “Standing With the Mobâ€

Thursday, December 6, 2007
Standing With the Mob

The five major candidates for governor chose political expedience over statesmanship last week when they unanimously denounced a community-college policy of admitting illegal immigrants.

Their positions against the admission of these young people to the college system stand in sharp contrast to that of Gov. Mike Easley, who said that North Carolina should not blame these young people, many of whom have no memory of the homelands of their parents, for their illegal status.

By standing with the mob that wants to run these young people back across the border, and most likely into lands about which they know little, the five candidates showed a depressing lack of courage.

Lt. Gov. Bev Perdue, Treasurer Richard Moore, former Supreme Court Justice Bob Orr, Sen. Fred Smith and trial lawyer Bill Graham should be ashamed of themselves. They have taken an innocuous number of youngsters trying to build their American dreams and helped turn them into a trigger point for the emotional.

Graham, who recently proposed cutting foreign graduate students from our public universities, once again demonstrated his jingoism. He said in a statement that the 340 students involved - out of 270,000 in the system - are a drain on the taxpayer.

Sorry, Bill, but you’re wrong. As the community-college system has reported, the immigrants pay out-of-state tuition, and that means, therefore, that they are not getting any subsidy for their studies. They are actually paying more than the state’s cost.

Most disturbing of all the candidate reactions is that of Orr. We’ve come to expect more wisdom from the former justice. Whatever happened to the “opportunity societyâ€

His comment is gone. Wonder why?