Ill., April 22 - Scores of African-American and Hispanic students at a small Evangelical Christian college here missed classes and were set to spend a second night in seclusion on Friday, after a series of threatening racist letters spurred their evacuation from the campus. Officials at Trinity International University, a conservative Bible-based school headquartered in this village 30 miles north of Chicago, said three students, two of them black and one Hispanic, had received hate-filled handwritten notes through the campus mail over two weeks.
<>The officials said they urged nearly 200 minority undergraduates to leave their dormitories after the third letter arrived on Thursday because it included growing threats of violence and was sent within days of the anniversaries of the Columbine school shooting in Colorado, the Oklahoma City bombing and Hitler's birth. It was not clear when, or if, the black and Hispanic students would return. The university president, Gregory L. Waybright, said they would be able to complete their academic work for the year. Mr. Waybright said Trinity embraced racial diversity but could not shield itself from the ugliness of an "imperfect world."This is a conservative christian institution of higher education!!! This is the US. This is where all the priorities are skewed towards the most vile and vicious evils incarnate. It is really difficult to call this anything other than cannibalism. Attack the core constituency of the deeply faithful for their being inferiorly bred subhumans. Yes indeed, compassionate conservatism in its christian finest. I do believe god is blessing the USA./
