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...Sociologist E. Franklin Frazier's work in the 1930s, detailed in Slavery (1959) a view that whites had done to blacks what the Nazis did to the Jews. Blacks were-and are-acted upon; they do not themselves act, because their culture was broken by slavery and its racist aftermath. The view awakened liberal guilt and paralleled the rise of the white civil rights movement. The Moynihan report described the devastation of black family life and asked Government aid to try to invigorate it again...
...group staged the demonstration to voice opposition to the University's involvement with "racist policies" and to gain more support for CAR, Nancy Bancroft '63, Harvard CAR leader, said Saturday...
...entirely sure why we are wasting our time writing to comment on such a piece of self-apparent pap as Ms. Rosenthal's "Sociobiology: Laying the Foundation for a Racist Synthesis," (Crimson, 2/8/77) but perhaps we dislike seeing flagrant slanders and half-truths go unrebutted. Ms. Rosenthal represents two political organizations, the Committee Against Racism and the Sociobiology Study Group, part of Science for the People of Boston, yet she dares to continually attack those who dispute her brand of ideological orthodoxy with being "unscientific." She seems to posit some grand conspiracy advocating "immigration restriction, eugenics, imperialism, and anti-communism...
...book, but was simply suggesting that biological factors as well as environmental effects influence man's well-known penchant for aggression. Such a suggestion, especially considering the vast weight of evidence that backs it up, does not seem particularly far-fetched, nor does it seem in any degree racist. However, if Professor Wilson's views are indeed as absurd as Ms. Rosenthal seems to think, it would be more prudent on her part to allow his hypotheses to fall victim to the truly scientific method of test by experiment, rather than the politically-motivated haranguing of a nutritionist whose command...
...agree with Miriam Rosenthal ("Sociobiology: Laying the Foundation for a Racist Synthesis," Crimson, February 8, 1977) that we can't blindly trust the methods of scientists--but we can't blindly reject their conclusions either...