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...Student Who Started a Racist Email War.” Last November, Grace apparently got into a debate of sorts over dinner and followed up via e-mail. Later, she expressed regret over the message, remarking: “I emphatically do not believe that African Americans are genetically inferior in any way. I understand why my words expressing even a doubt in that regard were and are offensive...
Dean of Harvard Law School Martha L. Minow denounced a law student’s e-mail circulated on school lists this week that suggested black people are genetically inferior to white people...
...HAUS! Dunster makes up for its somewhat abominable reputation with a robust House culture. Our happy hours—with themes such as Space, the Cold War, and Anything but Clothes—blow those lukewarm stein clubs out of the water, even attracting members of other Houses with inferior social events. Unlike some other Houses, Dunster has a small and tight community—we love our Moose family...
Zuma lashed out at his critics this week, telling South Africa's Star newspaper that the British were acting in the superior manner of a colonial master. "When the British came to our country, they said everything we are doing was barbaric, was wrong, inferior in whatever way," he said. "Bear in mind that I'm a freedom fighter and I fought to free myself, also for my culture to be respected." The African National Congress Youth League, part of South Africa's governing coalition, went even further, claiming the treatment of Zuma was fueled by racism. "These British racists...
Some scientists, most prominently the Harvard-based evolutionary biologist Steven Pinker, have publicly expressed concerns that such revelations of genetic differences may fuel wrongheaded beliefs that different racial and ethnic groups should be treated as inferior. During the telephone press conference, the authors were asked whether they shared this concern. Schuster said, "Overall, modern humans are very similar to one another." He reiterated that genetic diversity within Africa is greater than that between other continents...