T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F T E X A S A T A R L I N G T O N
Thursday,
October 8, 2009
Volume 91, No.
28
www.
theshorthorn.
com
Since 1919
INDEX
Calendar 2
News 2,4,6
Sports 3
Classifieds 5
Pulse B
BY ARIONNE WELLS
The Shorthorn staff
R
ichard Nixon and...
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T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F T E X A S A T A R L I N G T O N
Thursday,
October 8, 2009
Volume 91, No.
28
www.
theshorthorn.
com
Since 1919
INDEX
Calendar 2
News 2,4,6
Sports 3
Classifieds 5
Pulse B
BY ARIONNE WELLS
The Shorthorn staff
R
ichard Nixon and Lyndon B.
Johnson are former presidents that Morris Dees referenced to illustrate the respect that citizens held for them amidst disagreements.
Civil rights attorney Dees stressed that intolerance and disrespect stemmed from subconscious bigotry during his lecture
Wednesday night to a crowd of roughly 500 students, faculty
and staff in the University Center Rosebud Theatre.
Dees said he shed some tears the night President Barack
Obama was elected - but said the love fest the nation had “has
now turned into a bloodbath.
”
Dees said there are people who do not believe that an
African-American citizen is fit to lead the country.
He referenced the interruption of Obama’s congressional
address about health care when Rep.
Joe Wilson, R
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