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...Black film as well as Black politics. We have to be more critical, we have to get beyond gross over-simplifications and knee jerk responses to problems of race in this country. Sure we are the disenfranchised from the American Dream Capitalism and communism are both as owedly racist. But we're not moving beyond this rhetorical consciousness. What are we going to do next...
...candidates have fared better in garnering votes in predominantly white areas. "For the first time large segments of ethnic Americans have to live under a black administration and pay deference to black leadership," says Harvard Political Scientist Martin Kilson. "This is something new and significant in a society where racist sentiment is deep, rigid and difficult to change...
Reagan may not have a racist bone in his body, as his aides insist, but his philosophical antipathy to federal activism, whether it takes the form of social spending or statutory redress, is at odds with the kind of government leadership that blacks have come to expect. His budget cuts were felt most immediately by the nation's poor, who are disproportionately black. He flirted with the idea of weakening the Voting Rights Act until a political fire storm changed his mind, and until recently was criticized for lax enforcement of fair housing laws. William Bradford Reynolds, the Assistant...
...Independent) It is naive to think that such commonly used excuses are credible in this very observant intellectual community. It is instructive to note that the last boycott held by a group of Harvard Black students (i.e., before Afro. Am Studies, the Foundation, etc.) was not against some "racist" person or policy of the University, but against former Black basketball couch Satch Sanders, a warm and caring person who sacrificed part of his professional career to work with Harvard students. Some Black students boycotted him because he "played too many whites." One can only wonder where this self-destructive behavior...
...might view it as a positive sign that the Diana Ross visit inspired five letters to The Crimson from "concerned" Black students. This is unprecedented Over the past few years. Black children have been beaten and murdered by racist in the Boston area, the Ku Kluk Klan ahs rallied here. Jerry Falwell has spoken on the Harvard campus. Harvard Black students fear for their safety when travelling in Boston. Black enrollment is at its lowest in 13 years, and South African apartheid issues stare us in the face-yet no one can recall even one letter from these same Black...