Well, the “landscape art display� [sic] on Cal Poly’s Dexter Lawn has inspired my own artistic sensibilities! To professor Beth Diamond, V.P. for student affairs Cornel Morton, and the five student “artists� who brilliantly prefer to remain nameless, I dedicate the following:
Black people,
Brown people,
Yellow people,
Red
And gays
to the back
Of the bus
they said.
Hate speech is hate speech — even when covered by the white sheet of “free expression� or “art.� Shame on you all.
Dona L. Cobelens
San Luis Obispo
This article appears in Nov 18-25, 2004.