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...deeper level, no matter how elitist, racist or ideologically unacceptable final clubs are, no one is forced to join one simply by attending Harvard. On the other hand, attending Harvard means paying tuition, and that means supporting the endowment and Harvard's investment stance. That there is no avoiding placing this tacit imprimatur on the investment policy is what motives those who oppose this policy to try to change it. One can passively oppose final clubs by not belonging; there is no way to passively oppose investment policy...
...years ago, the Cambridge City Council voted to establish the CRB following charges of racist police conduct.Cambridge officers arrested eight Black youths andcharged them with assaulting a cyclist. The boys'parents claimed their children had beenarbitrarily arrested because they were Black...
Other names have become almost as symbolic as Howard Beach: for example, the Citadel, the Charleston, S.C., military academy where a black cadet was subjected to racist hazing; or Jefferson Parish, the New Orleans suburb where the sheriff (a Chinese American) made a suggestion (later retracted after a public outcry) that blacks walking in white neighborhoods might be stopped for questioning...
Most experts who try to chart the course of racism over the years now believe that the substantial gains of the 1960s and 1970s came to a gradual halt after the election of Ronald Reagan. "The resurgence of racist feelings and continued illegal discrimination are fostered by the Administration's refusal to admit that racism may still be a problem," says Urban League President John Jacob. More specifically, he cites "its efforts to give tax- exempt status to segregated schools, its fight against extension of the civil rights law, its efforts to undermine affirmative action, to destroy the Civil Rights...
...Although I can't say Reagan made kids behave the way they did at Howard Beach," says Roger Wilkins, senior research fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, "whites get the message that the leader of this country, the moral beacon, is saying it's all right to be racist." That judgment was considerably exaggerated, but it nonetheless remains true that any sign of indifference means that the beast is free to prowl...