Word: cosmopolitans
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...University itself, but instead by one of its faculty. In a letter by Professor Martin Kilson on Monday, February 25, 1985, the Black Students Association was criticized as being overly "ethnocentric," "disoriented," and even "pathetic," and to what Mr. Kilson views as their lack of an appropriately "cosmopolitan" identify. Such an assertion seems to be completely oblivious to the reason that the Black Students Association was formed and why it has that name, or why for that matter, the Asian American Association, the American Indians at Harvard, RUS, and a large number of other students organizations have their names, including...
...Kilson to even suggest that for one to become more effective in combating a problem such as Black poverty, one must seek after a cosmopolitan identify and environment, and keep away from ethnocentric issues (issues specifically pertaining to Black people) is ludicrous. In fact it would seem almost intuitive to say that the best leader of any group are likely to come from those who have shown the most interest and involvement in that group, no matter who that group is. This goes also for the Black poor, so I can only hope that Mr. Kilson's interest...
Students will, of course, vary in the degree to which any given student will temper his or her parochial givens with cosmopolitan interactions. Some prefer a foot in parochial moorings while trekking Harvard's cosmopolitan cross-roads, which explains the existence of a Church of the Latter-Day-Saints on Brattle Street for Harvard's Mormon students and a Hillel House on Mt. Auburn St. for Harvard's Jewish students. But Black students must recognize that such preference for parochial moorings are not rights--requiring inputs by the wider college community for their enjoyment. Thus Mormon and Jewish students wishing...
...immature and phony perspective toward ethnic leadership. Blacks with wealth and institutional resources will have to put some of these on the line (not just ethnocentric theatric)in order to upgrade the Black poor, or stop all the fast and easy talk about being Black leaders And Blacks with cosmopolitan lifestyles, with linkages to inter-ethnic friendships and networks have got to find ways in out ncoconservative era to get these cross-ethnic networks and friends to recognize their obligation and American society's obligation to bring our countru's average standard of living to the Black poor...
...money, I'd bet that the Black students at Harvard (and other colleges, too) who have chosen cosmopolitan identities rather than ethnocentric ones will in the future perform their Black leadership requirements better than Black students who have opted for ethnocentrism. If the good Lord's willing. I'll meet Timothy Wilkins. Anthony Ball, and Audrey Mitchell down the road in 20 years to pick up my winnings. By the way, I don't think Wilkins and his followers are getting off to a very good start, using resources of some Black graduates of Harvard for an ethnocentric Alumni Weekend...