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...students were supposed to come together to talk for one hour about current issues surrounding Harvard’s Afro-American studies department, but the discussion of a single encounter between President Lawrence H. Summers and Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 quickly turned into a much larger and longer debate—encompassing such issues as the role of the intellectual in American society, the conduct of our rookie president and quasi-racism among Harvard’s upper-crust alumni...
...bathroom of the Faculty Club between meetings. I was at the fall meeting of the Alumni Association this past weekend, and I was so struck by the number of people who assumed that this problem was something that was generated by West. They assumed that this was something Cornel West blew out of proportion. They assumed that Cornel West had made this a problem. They assumed that Summers had a legitimate grudge because they assumed Cornel West was somehow not of the caliber of someone like, say, Harvey Mansfield, or some other heavily-endowed professors at Harvard. And it seems...
...nomination in Congress never read her stuff. There is an assumption, perhaps, that black excellence is exceptional or somehow out of place or outside the norm. There is that notion that black excellence is not supposed to be too widespread. I think that when we position people like Cornel West and Skip Gates as the sort of paradigmatic examples of black excellence things like this unleash the possibility for people to question black excellence and to talk shit about black excellence in a way that is really deeply racist...
While Summers was making headlines for his calls for greater patriotism in academia and his spat with Fletcher University Professor Cornel West ’71, conservative editorial pages and columnists praised signs that he was the leader who could provide a needed lesson to out- of-touch, politically correct and knee-jerkingly liberal Harvard...
...discussion between Summers and Fletcher University Professor Cornel West ’71 sparked the conflict, leading prominent members of Harvard’s department and national figures such as the Rev. Jesse Jackson to publicly criticize Summers for his tepid support of affirmative action...