UNC student group hosts second immigration talk

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — A week after protesters disrupted the speech of former Republican presidential candidate Tom Tancredo, a student group at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will host a second speaker who is a vocal opponent of illegal immigration.

Former Virginia Rep. Virgil Goode will speak on campus Wednesday night in a talk entitled, "Hate Speech, Free Speech and the Multiculturalism."

The event is the second organized by the group Youth for Western Civilization, a student group that opposes mass immigration and multiculturalism.

Protesters disrupted Tancredo's speech on April 14 by shouting profanities and unfurling banners as the former Colorado congressman tried to address an audience about his opposition to in-state tuition for illegal immigrants.

Police eventually halted his speech and had to use pepper spray after demonstrators broke a window.

Goode is scheduled to speak at 6:30 p.m., and the venue might be moved to a bigger auditorium. UNC security officials said they are preparing for any protests that might come with the event.

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The students from last weeks protest should be treated with the same respect that those at NCSU who wrote inflammitory words in the free-expression tunnel.

Forced to apologize and suspended. But NOOOOO, not at ultra-liberal UNC.

vote4changeASAP
April 22, 2009 4:22 p.m.

Funny !!!! Last Saturday I was watching WRAL News Saturday Morning around 6:30 when Renee Chou mentioned this event and stated Virginia Rep. Virgil Goode to take an "anti-immigration" view point.

thayer00
April 22, 2009 3:54 p.m.

"...a talk entitled, "Hate Speech, Free Speech and the Multiculturalism."

Nothing to do with immigration. They need to re-do Tancredos' invitation.

marke3
April 22, 2009 3:47 p.m.

JUST SAY NO........TO MEXICO!

army retiree
April 22, 2009 3:18 p.m.

I hope the UNC police brings lots of pepper spray, and uses it liberally! 11 MILLION illegal immigrants in the US is a BIG problem, with no easy solution. Let folks gather and discuss it! Long live our freedom of speech!