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...article, Counter writes that a certain "para-white ethnic groups" uses the word "nigger" in order "to convince themselves and others of their imagined white identity and publicly flex their 'whiteness.'" This usage "may well be part of a much larger ethnic scheme designed to denigrate Afro-Americans..." By the way, the culprits are "Euro-American individuals and special interest groups with powerful influence in the media..." He cites several examples, such as the movie Blazing Saddles (by Mel Brooks, a Jew) as well as the use of the word "shvartza" (a Yiddish word...
Nothing will change without efforts to reach out--efforts we have renewed recently. Afro-American Studies Chair Henry Louis Gate Jr. has offered to help us recruit. The answer, however, cannot be false accusations and overstated charges of helping to run what the Black Students, Association called "the Harvard plantation...
Without the constant attention Leonard Jeffries received from the press during the last year, he would still be an unknown Afro-American studies professor from City University of New York--not someone who spoke to a packed Sanders Theatre and certainly not a household name. This same rationale seems to explain why fringe political groups and bigots always seem so enthusiastic to appear on shows like "Geraldo" or "Donahue," despite the fact that they know that they will, practically without exception, be deplored and ridiculed by the audience...
...deserve discourse, dialogue and communication. If there is no courtesy of reply, indeed no courtesy whatsoever, I challenge you to bring your critical faculties to bear on those excessively critical faculty members elsewhere. Catherine Clinton Professor of Afro-American Studies
What on earth do they think "The Crimson's racial agenda" is? Traditionally, The Crimson has voiced strong support for minority hiring and affirmative action. We called for and praised the Afro-American Studies faculty appointments and, more recently, we have supported protests for minority hiring at the Law school...