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...place in a classroom; he has no patience with teachers who use their classroom as a pulpit. If you think, as the articles suggest, that this restricts "alternative" agendas in the classroom, you are probably correct. But your editorial goes much further. In effect you call Richard Marius a racist. Your report implies it--your editorial virtually comes out and says it. Richard makes "no serious effort to recruit teachers of color." This is just not true...
...Stern's infamous specialty is mean-spirited, horrendously tasteless, occasionally racist lampoons. It's he, not Limbaugh, who uses outrageous put- downs and salty language, right? Such as calling a former U.S. Senator "Alan ('the Cadaver') Cranston" and Perot "a hand grenade with a bad haircut." It's Stern, surely, who used to do an on-air stunt with vacuum- cleaner sound effects dubbed "caller abortions," who chatted with a female caller about giving him "a throat massage" with her tongue, whose current newsletter article on health-care reform is headlined BEND OVER, AMERICA, and who just last week...
Paradoxically, it turns out that for all the wrong reasons, the protesters are right. The 1927 musical is racist. The problem is not the epithet "niggers" in the opening song, which was not meanly meant in the first place and which in any case has been expunged in favor of the less incendiary "colored folks." Nor is it the historically accurate portrayal of blacks as mostly compliant, if resentful, field hands and laborers. The real problem is that the show follows the wrong story. It assumes that black people are inherently less interesting than whites...
...readings rendered DuBois' words--words of one of America's great cultural civilizers and freedom fighters--accessible to a generation of both Black and non-Black students who are far removed from those quasi-authoritarian and viciously racist realities that defined the African-American status in DuBois...
...condemned to follow the sexist, racist and classist stands within our cultural traditions in order to be considered authentic yellow people. Indeed, the fact that we are creating our own identities is one of the things which is so liberating (and, at the same time, so profoundly frightening) about the Asian-American experience. The fact that we as Asian men are treated badly by mainstream society does not give us the right to prioritize our injurie over the injuries we inflict upon others. We cannot afford that kind of thinking in a world where we all hope to live together...