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...Larry DiCara might have won his "First Test" (Crimson September 22), but Garrett Epps' pompous, incredibly racist write up on it diminished his victory and the Crimson's reportorial stature...
...fact that DiCara is young or Italian or goes to Harvard should be labeled as "strengths" rather than whatever positions on issues he might take (listed later almost as an afterthought) suggests Epps as little more than a class snob commenting on the fun and games of lumpen politics...
Epps further comments that DiCara has a real chance since Boston voters don't consider him a Harvard-type but more "one of them...short, stocky, hook-nosed, balding." Genuine Harvard people, we must assume from Epps' viewpoint, are all tall, thin, straight-nosed, and hairy. Nowhere does Epps suggest that some Boston voters might have selected DiCara for his platform (or his understanding of their problems) rather than his nationality or looks. But then, that might be asking too much insight from the Crimson president whose narrow vision still very much reflects Harvard's W.A.S.Per-than-thou mentality...
...vote in Boston and have no stake in DiCara's campaign but he hardly needs an amateur version of hack reportage. Peace, Jean Bergantini Grillo...
...Grillo's attempt to interpret my racial or ethnic views--or even, in fact, my ethnic origin--on the basic of a place of relatively straight reporting is puzzling to me. To answer her points in order: 1) The listing of DiCara's strengths was an almost verbatim paraphrase of the listing given me by his campaign manager. Grillo cleverly omits one-third of the listing: the word "liberal," which is ordinarily taken to refer to a candidate's political beliefs. 2) My listing of DiCara's appearance was not a slur, but merely an observation that...