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Professor Derrick Bell's letter in May 21st Crimson is as ignorant as it is pathetic. Its ignorance is manifold: First, none of my comments and analysis on the dysfunctional aspects of the black separatist lifestyle have ever denied that this behavior was due in part to white racist patterns, and in my Bulletin article (April) I actually state that "such behavior is a conscious countering of white racist exclusivism with black ethnic exclusivism." What I have said, and would reiterate, is that the black separatist students use the charge of white racism as a catch-all explanation for their...
...long time, black students and faculty have tried to ignore Kilson's vicious slanders We recognized that the effort to survive in a racist society damages all of us and there seemed little to be gained by public wrangling with one of our brothers who is so obviously in worse shape than most But such fraternal tolerance must give way when it becomes clear that our silence may be considered as concession by the Harvard community, particularly those in policy-making positions...
Putnam also goes along with the Bok Administration policies on investment in southern Africa: He believes more can be accomplished by keeping American corporations involved in racist countries than by having them pull...
Herrnstein's advocacy of social policy based on the false assumption of genetically determined social classes comes at a time of severe government cutbacks in education, medical care, welfare and housing. Cuts are justified on the racist grounds that those receiving aid are culturally or genetically unable to benefit. One Boston school committee member, for example, pointed to low reading scores of black children to justify oppostion to busing, and the terrible school conditions...
...states. Herrnstein is aware of the inadequacy of his data and of the seriousness of the social policy he advocates. By publishing again in a popular news magazine, providing no new evidence to prove his case, and by calling for social policy whose application could only be racist, Herrnstein is acting as a political organizer, not a scholar. SDS feels he should be responded to as such...