A Question of Free Speech?
An African-American student was outraged and a Mexican-American instructor felt insulted by a column in the student newspaper by the student editor in chief, Chris Mayda, that the high birth rates among less-educated, lower-income Latinos and blacks force parents to divide their attention among too many children to give them needed educational and economic opportunities, that poor parents would be better off having one or two children.
Both characterized the column as racist. Others used the term irresponsible.
What I find irresponsible is insemination by males with no intent to nurture as a father and support economically; conception by females without the ability to nurture or support, and the expectation that society--the taxpayers--should.
What I find outrageous is babies born to children without the maturity to nurture or support them.
There is no “right” to inseminate or conceive without the concomitant responsibility to nurture and support the results.
LOUISE BIANCO, Tarzana
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