Letter from University of Texas Student on Race Hoax Story

Posted by Nicholas Stix

[See:

“University of Texas Hoax Crimes Intended to Save Affirmative Action?”; and

“University of Texas Hoax Crime Hysteria Aims at Racial Cleansing—No Pushback from Campus Republicans.”]

Regarding University of Texas article
From Jeff Zhao
November 5, 2012

Dear Mr. Nicholas Stix:

This is in response to your article, “University of Texas Hoax Crime Hysteria Aims at Racial Cleansing—No Pushback from Campus Republicans.”

Thank you for the article regarding perspectives on race at UT-Austin. It is interesting to see alternative points of view, although the overall tone of your writing is too inflammatory for my taste.

Two comments:

1. As a friend of Joshua Tang, he does not order anybody to see him any particular way, but simply acknowledges that he is of half-Chinese and half-Black descent. This is factually true rather than a constructed identity.

2. If you are interested in contacting or organizing an opposition group to this vast socialist conspiracy to undermine the Panhellenic community and flood UT and West Campus with undesirable minorities, I suggest contacting former UT Republican leaders Lauren Price or Cassandra Wright. As organization leaders they took a much more vocal stance regarding racial issues than current leadership.

I look forward to reading more of your writing, as I found it both instructive and entertaining.

Best,

Jeff

Jeff Zhao is a student at UT-Austin.


[Nicholas Stix writes: Although Jeff Zhao and I are going to have to agree to disagree, regarding Joshua Tang’s self-constructed identity, I apologize to Zhao for just now publishing his letter. It came on November 5, during the Hurricane Sandy crisis, when I had no Internet service.

I found the letter tonight, when I was rummaging through my inbox containing some 19,292 e-mails. I came across thousands of alien-looking emails from November, and then it occurred to me why I’d never before seen any of them.

I apologize, as well, to the many readers, colleagues, and friends, who have written me before and since Sandy without hearing back form me.

About 90 minutes of stultifying, ruthless clicking managed to streamline my inbox down by just over 1,000 e-mails—about six days’ worth of mail.

I’m on seemingly everyone’s mailing list. What can I say? I’m just a guy who cain't say no.]