Word: hraaa
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Dates: during 1988-1988
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...onset, let me state for the record that I am Black and female and a graduate of the Harvard Law School. In June I was elected to the Harvard Board of Overseers, having been nominated by HRAAA. Up until this fall, I was active in the leadership of HRAAA as a part of the Executive and Steering Committees. I was not the only minority/Black woman serving in that capacity. I withdrew (I am still active generally when time permits) due to the press of my responsibilities to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, to which I am counsel...
...HRAAA is not technically a membership organization. There are no dues. It is an open association, reliant on the good will and donated time and money of any and all persons who want to fight apartheid through pursuit of divestment and other appropriate means. It is puzzling how Tina E. Smith '83 could "resign" from such an assemblange or, more pointedly, from a group she walked out on over a year...
...Simmons' comments are equally ludicrous The other minority/Black people, male and female, running or having run HRAAA would be astonished to know that they were "white persons." I know I am. HRAAA is not racist and has turned away no one who has offered their time and talent on its behalf. While the idea of the white people in HRAAA withering away or ceasing to exist may be an intriguing proposition to Simmons, it is not realistic or desirable in what is, like it or not, a pluralistic society. (There is also a certain irony in someone leaving an organization...
...HRAAA condones racism. HRAAA is not perfect and, as individuals and as a group, we struggle always to do better. It is regrettable when people like Smith and Simmons, by all appearances with personal axes to grind, agitate to undermine the credibility of a worth while organization and cause rather than working constructively to resolve any concerns they may have. Consuela M. Washington University Overseer