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...have lots of ideas for this semester, Dylan, Kelly and Brenda tell us in this message, "including Condom [sic] Week, a Freedom of Choice Act Rallly [sic], etc." My question is, how "dum" do you have to be to spell condom with a "u?" I mean, reallllly...
When I found out I was [HIV] positive, I had assumed I was, so it was no big deal. It made me ponder a lot of questions--mortality, spirituality, politics, etc., and sex brings all those together. And being HIV positive I continued, and I was finding that, particularly in the mid `80s when we were living in an age of, I felt, sexual hypocrisy, people would either say, "I can't believe you're still having sex," or they would say, "I respect you so much for still going out," like it was work or something like that...
...given preferential consideration, on the theory that they are most in need of U.C. funding whereas older groups may have established sources of outside or internal revenue. Finally, to remove ideology from the process, the grants process is content-neutral in terms of political ideology, religious of ethnic affiliation, etc...
This flirtation of Black student organizations at elite colleges with the venomous forms of ethnocentric Black populism associated with the Nation of Islam is, unfortunately, not new. Since the middle 1980s, intellectually infantile clusters of African-American students at Princeton University, Rutgers University, the University of Massachusetts--Amherst, etc., have with such invitations thumbed their noses at the humanistic civil rights tradition--a tradition honed by the best of African-American leadership, like Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois, Benjamin Mays, Horace Mann Bond, James Weldon Johnson, A. Phillip Randolph, Martin Luther King Jr., Jesse Jackson, to name just...
...they do this? The official reason given by these Black student organizations goes something like this: "We want to celebrate our cultural heritage," or "To satisfy our thirst for Black history," etc...