by Roberto Rodriquez

I pick up the phone at my office at the University of Arizona and learn that I have three recorded messages waiting for me. The first one begins with the caller claiming to be half White and half Native American, addressing me as an “expletive Mexican” and a “Raza expletive.” This while injecting a .357 Magnum into his rant.The second and third calls are similar. The vitriol is inexplicable and virtually incomprehensible, except for the threats of extreme violence.As a lifelong writer, receiving vicious hate mail is not new to me, including receiving a registered letter to my house from the Ku Klux Klan. But receiving death threats as a professor — this is new.

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