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...that while it would appear to be about unhealed wounds between the north and the south, it is really but another chapter in our society's sordid experience of racial relations. Alas, many will come to the conclusion that to commemorate the 64 southern dead Harvard graduates is to disconfirm the valid presence of African-Americans at Harvard. Symbols have consequences. As race is America's" original sin," we will never be able to regard the "race problem" as "solved;" and even here in a community the celebrates rationality, civility and diversity, it is only a thin veneer of these...

Author: By Peter J. Gomes, | Title: Civil Wars and Moral Ambiguity | 1/17/1996 | See Source »

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