Word: class
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...retrospect, I think part of it was the dearth of Blacks on the newspaper. There were only two Black executives (my brother and myself) the year my class ran the paper. Consequently, I felt that I should step forward since several Black Harvard students had told me they believe The Crimson is racist. This is thought of the same newspaper which had a president who is Black back...
When I was co-editor of my high school newspaper, The Viking Venture, I was the only Black involved with the newspaper. The following year, five Blacks enrolled in the school's first-year journalism class. I hoped my visibility--I wrote a monthly column, Casey's Corner, which included my picture--had something to do with it. But I did not actively go out and recruit these people...
There were only a few Asian students in the Class of 1921; now Asian-Americans comprise 13 percent of the student body. In 1909 there were five Blacks--.02 percent--compared to 11 percent today...
...feel personally sorrowful about black-white relations a lot of the time because black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war, to prevent other kinds of real conflagrations...
...Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich get it handed -- they inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network. That's shared bounty of class...