Word: racistly
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...Harvard Committee Against Racism (CAR) has been holding forums all year to oppose the wave of academic racist theories emanating recently from campuses all around the country. Now, in Boston, the real danger of such ideas has become apparent. Notions of black inferiority are being used to whip up racist hysteria around the issue of integration, while the struggle of black and white parents for a decent public education for their children is severely threatened...
Harvard CAR condemns the efforts being made by politicians and the press to use the issues of school integration and busing to build a racist movement in the Boston area. In particular...
...condemn the Boston School Committee for playing upon many white people's racist fears to divert attention from its own failure to educate Boston's schoolchildren. We believe that the problems of Boston's schools are not caused by students, white or black (as the School Committee would have us believe) but by the School Committee's refusal to provide adequate facilities, teachers, or materials...
...same time they discourage prospective students from attending this school. At dining hall tables, on the streets, around the campus, high school juniors and seniors, who respect the opinions of their older and, supposedly, more intelligent and more mature college hosts, constantly hear that "Harvard is a racist school. You'll get messed over here. Don't come here. Go someplace else...
...case the '69 strike was built for very patiently. WSA caucus members and others prepared for several years. We did it then the same way Workers Power members and oteers are building the anti-racist movement on campuses today, by discussing every question with everyone we can, organizing struggles (the successful fight to keep Shockley out of Yale a week ago is an example) exposing every administration lie, organizing a mass-based political defense when the administration tries (as they're now trying at Yale) to silence us with punishments, using these very attacks to help people understand the system...