Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Additionally, as time passes on, the optimism of Black students during the late 1970s and early 1980s is being replaced by the realization that racism is alive and seething in the hearts and minds of the American populace. This awakening comes from the stark realities of being Black in America. It comes from being called nigger in the classroom and the boardroom rather than just in railroad stations and at bus stops. It is the realization that a middle-class or upper-class or educated Black is still, in the eyes of white America, just Black. A Harvard degree does...
...college campuses all over the nation, including those of the "white liberal North," does it not make sense to join hands with the people with whom you can make constructive gains in the system, if not change the system all together? Does it not make sense that educated Black college students uplift their brothers and sisters while at the same time supporting each other in this hostile racial climate? It makes perfect sense. It's called survival...
Completely absorbed in the struggle for survival, Black Greeks have no time to merely write books about the "myriad of social pathologies" plaguing the Black community, including teen pregnancy, drug abuse and illiteracy. We take an active stance. We get things done. And though we are open to those seeking information, we have adopted a policy similar to that of the Harvard academic community: the knowledge is here for your consumption, but we will not spoon-feed it to you. Spending our time proselytizing would mean one less Black child that we got off the streets and into a tutoring...
...illiteracy that limits the lives of these children can be remedied. However, Harvard suffers from a blindness so deeply rooted that it seems irreversible. The best efforts of Black Greeks have been met with blind rejection. It seems to make no difference what Black Greeks say or do, for without seeking the light of information, this administration prejudges and condemns us. We have had little opportunity to counter the negative perception of Black Greeks because we cannot share our many activities with the Harvard community. We are unable to publicize the many lecture series. forums and community service projects...
...spite of our mistreatment, the Black Greeks at Harvard have flourished without official recognition of this campus. We will continue to do so. It saddens us, however, that the obviously biased and often false statements made by some members of the Harvard administration and faculty continue to circulate, clouding the vision of other administrators and creating a veil of prejudice through which the student population must view us. It seems pitiful that in one of the world's most "enlightened" institutions, the administration sees fit to malign and degrade people in a manner more suitable to the Dark Ages. However...