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...write to condemn the intellectually shameful decision by Mr. Muhammad Kenyatta and the Harvard Black Law Students Association (BALSA) to thumb their nose at the norms that must govern discourse at this or any other university-the norms of free speech and fairness...
...ugliness of Mr. Kenyatta's behavior, cowardly acquiesced in by Afro-American students associated with BALSA, is especially shocking, in light of Black Americans long and bitter experience with racist victimization and brutalization. It is hard to believe that Mr. Kenyatta's and BALSA's knowledge of this experience is so shallow and unsophisticated that they could transform the occasion of the PLO's UN representative's talk into one of the vilest assaults on the norms of fairness and free speech to occur at Harvard in many years...
That Mr. Kenxatta and BALSA could violate fairness and free speech for Jewish students indicates further their crass indifference to the unfortunate cleavage in national politics between some Jews and some Blacks, stemming in part from Rev. Jesse Jackson's irresponsible "Hymie" remark and from Rev. Louis Farrakan's idiotic comment on Hitler's "greatness." Whether Mr. Kenyatta and BALSA recognize it or not, such events at Harvard University are events "in-a-fishbowl"--readily transmitted by the media to the country as a whole, and thus subject to becoming fuel to a fire capable of getting out of control...
...justice for the poor in the Reaganite era, and cultural up lift for the anomie segments of the Black lower class. But such indifference by Afro-American elites to the needs and concerns of Third World communities like the Palestinians is moral unacceptable and politically cowardice. I therefore welcome BALSA's decision to consider a resolution endorsing the PLO as the legitimate represntative of the Palestinian people. I also welcome an affirmative vote...
...Palestinian people is a worthy sentiment for over 30 years. Palestinians have been bounced around the Middle East locked in refugee camps, and used as pawns in political and military struggles. But merely to endorse one group without further, consideration on the larger issue, as the national BALSA would, is an overly simplistic and unproductive solution to a complex problem...