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To take one point: I wonder whether it is strictly in the sense of fair play to fault both Professors [Cornel] West and [Harold] Cruse for not responding to a charge of anti-Semitism, or pro-Farrakhan-ism, as it were. Is this not a straw man argument, used for...
A note on matters of record: Surely Mr. Barron should be expected, if he is to lambast Professor West, to get his name correct: Professor Cornel West is an assistant professor at the Yale Divinity School, not Conrad West. And I would add that Professor Cruse's remarks at the...
Finally I would like to add a personal comment. As an officer of the W.E.B. Du Bois Society, I have to say that I find this organization as free of anti-Semitism as any organization I have been a member of. I say this not only because I am a...
But changing demographics and lifestyles of Blacks since the mid-20th century has created a situation where the climate of intellectual debate established by Du Bois and his colleagues is no longer possible, Cruse said.
Michael Dawson, a Government Department graduate student and president of the Du Bois Graduate Society, said his organization operates on the belief that "there can be dialogue between intellectuals, activists and the Black community."