Reply #9: I do appreciate that you simply put me on ignore. You have every right

[pampango]

to ignore me, if you so desire. Your implied consent that I still have the right to speak at DU is much appreciated and admired. If only some people at Columbia would do the same.

My son has grown up in a small town in Ohio. Though we have traveled quite a bit, I trust that he will learn that there are all kinds of people in the world with all kinds of wisdom and prejudices. I trust him enough to believe that he will develop the ability to distinguish between the hate mongers and those that have legitimate points of view which he should consider.

I will not decide at that point whom he listens to, as I have while he was much younger, and whom he chooses to believe. He will be an adult. He will have every right to choose whom he wants to listen to and whom he wants to ignore, as you have done.