Posted on 01/08/2016 10:45:47 AM PST by Altura Ct.
Philadelphia high school senior Michael Moroz knew he was courting controversy when he wrote about race in the school newspaper, but he never expected death threats from classmates and strangers.
Just before Christmas break, the 17-year-old wrote an opinion piece for the Central High school paper, the Centralizer. In it, he criticized the racially charged University of Missouri protests and opined that Michael Brown, the black teenager killed in 2014 by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., was "a delinquent" who was "at worst, justifiably killed, and at best, [was] a thug."
The story hit the paper’s Facebook page while school was out, and that’s when the threats poured in. Moroz is now afraid to return to school and worried he could lose his place next fall at an Ivy League university.
“I feel as if I am a pariah in the community,†Moroz told FoxNews.com. “People I see on a daily basis have threatened my life. I don’t know how I am going to deal with it.â€
“They are looking for the destruction of a 17-year-old boy simply because they didn’t agree with his opinion.â€
- Jordan Rushie, attorney for Michael Moroz The article ran alongside another piece supportive of the University of Missouri demonstrations, which were triggered by claims the school was slow to react to incidents that alienated African-American students there. The demonstrations drew national headlines and resulted in the resignation of the school president.
Soon after Moroz's writing appeared online, Internet trolls took to social media, urging "someone" to “deal with†and even “shoot†him. Dozens of other posts labeled him a racist and urged University of Pennsylvania to rescind the acceptance it recently offered Moroz.
When classes resumed this week, a shaken Moroz stayed home.
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He’d better watch his six.
I’m sure Loretta Lynch will protect his civil rights.
Between the BLM crowd, the ignorant school mates, the liberal teachers and the lefty administrators, this kid needs to watch his entire clock, not just his six.
Good point.
Why do I feel that the opinions of Michael Moroz so closely align with mine?
St. Michael WAS a delinquent and a thug, who sooner or later was going to run athwart of the law. Just that in his instance, it was a little sooner, and the consequences were pretty irreversible.
“I’m sure Loretta Lynch will protect his civil rights.”
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Don’t hold your breath until that happens.
THIS is why social media was invented.
To cower and herd the masses.
Poor kid thought he had freedom of speech!
Mike Brown was a POS. Can I still say that?
He was a big fat POS.
Always had a leftist bent among the faculty & administration as would be expected in an inner-city urban school. Hopefully this kid gets a fair shake here and the leftists who are threatening him for expressing an opinion are exposed.
If you are going to act like a an ass, you better had be able to cash the check.....poor Mikie could not.
Same with poor little Trayvon. If folks think that the white gay man they are going to play the Knockout Game on actually is armed (and not gay), they might hesitate.
Nobody taught yong Mr. Moroz that TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.
young Mr. Moroz
an armed society is a polite society. An unarmed society is at best slaves to tyrants.
My son’s “Junior Thesis” in high school was titled “Why Affirmative Action Is Wrong.” He is very articulate and it was well written, especially considering the low standards dictated by the large percentage of minorities in the public schools here. They are graded by “home for the summer” college kids and he was given a failing grade. I wanted to go raise lleh, but he said no. He simply did a new cover sheet and resubmitted the same paper - passed.
Some people are permitted to speak truth to power, others ...
Mr. Moroz, what you wrote is true, you should’ve known that people who disagree with you - including strangers who should know better - will threaten to kill you. Unfortunately liberals are unhinged!
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