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...deans are appointed shows how difficult it will be for Harvard to embrace the spirit of affirmative action fully, because the whole process works in a way that precludes the possibility of real equal opportunity. The process is by no means intentionally racist or sexist, but it unavoidably ends up making it extraordinarily hard for women or minorities or non-Harvard people to become deans here...
...regrettable that a magazine with your circulation and assumed journalistic integrity would ignore the realities of our racist society. Until this nation accepts its black population as equal human beings, all of us blacks belong to the same class, regardless of our socioeconomic and educational or psychological frames of reference. The power structure of the U.S. has but one classification for all of us-black...
Such views, especially regarding economics and slave inefficiency, lasted into the 20th century, when they were adapted by Historian U.B. Phillips, a Southern racist whose aim was to rehabilitate the cruel plantation owners. Though he successfully showed that many slaves were well fed and cared for, he accepted the notion that plantations were not run for a profit. Instead, he argued, plantations, "were the best schools yet invented for the mass training of that sort of inert and backward people...
...whatever the validity of its individual findings--actually goes even further than attacking racism in attacking traditional approaches to American history. For the power of a view like Elkins's--even in its discussion of such topics as what "Sambo" really meant--is too great to dismiss as merely racist. It belongs rather with the old Abolitionist tracts, or even with the modern and equally important tracts of people like C. Wright Mills, moving and evocative in their assertion that capitalism grinds down the humanity of labor. It derives from horror--maybe a horrified surprise--that things have gone wrong...
...there is a lesson to be learned from the SLA, it is that in a society as violently racist, exploitative and aggressively heartless as America's, we cannot afford to be without an organized mass movement of the Left. For what the Left means in human terms is a moral community of hope--the revolutionary possibility of a better...