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Following is the text of an open letter distributed this week by Professor of Government Martin Kilson to members of his class, Government 1570: Politics and Society Among Afro-Americans...
This long-haul task--defined in activist uplift terms, not cathartic terms of Afro-Romanticism--is, of course, less symbolically stirring and solidaristically glamorous than your Kwanzaa Rituals celebration proposal, that's for certain. But from my vantage point as a pragmatic activist and leftist member of the Black intelligentsia, I can say without fear of contradiction that Rev. Rivers's kind of humanistic and activist outreach program will produce greater modern transformation and benefits for our massive Black poor population (32 percent of Black households, compared to 29 percent of Latino households) and 15 percent of white households...
Kilson's statement was originally issued in an open letter to students in his class, Government 1570: "Class-Politics and Society Among Afro-Americans...
...repeatedly attacks Harvard's respected Afro-American Studies Department chair, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., claiming that "African America's most notorious Judaeophile" owes his successful academic career to his pandering to Jewish interests...
...roughly 20-member committee consists of alumni, the leaders of the different campus groups and two faculty members, Professor of Philosophy Warren D. Goldfarb '69 and Professor of Afro-American Studies and of Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah...