Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there was also fear on my behalf that my liberal colleagues would allow me to write anything I wished. My fear was they would be either (a) gung-ho for something controversial to be in the newspaper or (b) gun-shy at being labeled racist for possibly censoring a Black...
...trying to do more outside of the sports department, I began to attend news meetings, and tried to be more cognizant of what besides sports happens on the newspaper. There was a story posing as a tribute to Black History Month last year which had a one-sided view saying that Africa had contributed nothing to world history. I was upset. Friends asked me how I could work on a paper which produced such a story...
...realize much of my anger was frustration and self-doubt. I wondered if others on the paper felt I should have written the story myself since I was complaining. Maybe I wasn't fulfilling my obligation, not playing my my role. This year I played that role, compiling a Black history quiz which ran in in the What Is to be Done? Should that have been my responsibility...
What I want to do is walk the fine line between being a regular journalist and a journalist who is Black. I did not become a journalist to further the cause of Blacks. I don't want to be perceived only as a Black journalist. I want to be considered a competent journalist who just happens to be Black...
...ongoing issue of whether Black Greek organizations have the right to exist and in what context they have the right to do so is moot. That they do exist is a reality. Perhaps, rather than trying to dismiss them from the sociopolitical atmosphere of Harvard University's campus, administrators, faculty and students should attempt to understand why they do exist...