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News Editor: Maggie S. Tucker '93 Night Editors: Julian E. Barnes '93 Jeremy A. Dauber '95 Mary Louise Kelly '93 Lan N. Nguyen '93 Philip P. Pan '93 Ira E. Stoll '94 Mark N. Templeton '93 Maggie S. Tucker '93 Editorial Editor: Alan S. Galper '93. Sports Editor: John D. Trainer '94 Feature Editors: Ivan Oransky '94 Maggie S. Tucker '93 Deign Editor: Nancy E. Greene '95 Manchester Bureau Chief: Joshua w. Shenk...
...that have been used against him. It seems that these can only play into his strategy of presenting himself as a victim of white lynching. I want to address three unfair criticisms of Jeffries or the BSA that appeared in the February 7 Crimson editorial piece by Allan S. Galper and Kenneth A. Katz...
...Galper and Katz also should have noticed that the clapping was much attenuated over certain of the more controversial points in Jeffries' speech. There was loud applause from whites and Blacks for some points, some applause primarily form Blacks for other points (like when he called Harvard a "citadel of white supremacy"), and clapping only by a quarter to a third of the BSA people in the orchestra when Jeffries sounded impatient in his response to a Jewish questioner...
...Galper and Katz make it sound as if most Black students in Sanders Theatre that night were applauding all of the racism that Jeffries is accused of. This is wrong on two counts--he didn't express his nastier views, and even some of the things he did say got a lukewarm reception from both races...
...Galper and Katz go on to say "So what if King Tut was Black? What does his Blackness do for Blacks in the inner cities?... For Blacks who are enslaved to this day in Arab countries? ....Beneath all his hateful demagoguery, Jeffries offers no constructive answers to any of the pressing problems facing Blacks and non-Blacks in America and the world today." This questioning is a arrogant and abrasive--a little bit like asking a feminist theorist, "what does all your stuff do for all the women out there who are beaten black and blue by their husbands...