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...black man and each white man strictly on his merits as a man." But as was common among whites at the time, his opinion of blacks as a group was rather dim. "As a race, and in the mass," he wrote in a letter in 1906, "they are altogether inferior to the whites...
...consequence, Harvard—despite its perpetual need for better teachers—is forced to release a number of well-liked and highly effective instructors each year, and yet the Faculty has failed to reconsider its policy on lecturers. Students should not have to study under inferior instruction simply because the Faculty wants to maintain the preeminence of tenured professors.Similarly unreasonable was the Faculty’s treatment of the CUE survey system, which is amongst the few measures taken to hold professors accountable as effective teachers. Amazingly, professors are not required to distribute CUE surveys to their students...
...attention of the world. While Nigeria's oil industry has produced billionaires, mostly from majority ethnic groups, the people of the Delta are left in penury. All the wealth is stolen and controlled by the majority tribes, who look down on the people of that region as inferior. It is the oil that Nigeria values, not the people. What the Nigerian state does to the people of the Niger Delta is abhorrent and pathetic. Akanimo Akan Lagos...
...distrust of its institutions? We try every day--by our actions, by the quality of the company we create, by our innovation--to address that learned helplessness and learned dependency and say, Wait a minute. Just because we're a black-owned bank doesn't mean we're an inferior bank. Then they think, Wait a minute. Maybe I can use other indigenous corporations. And that's where the whole phenomenon of recycling dollars in the community starts to take place--a foundation of building a sustainable economic-development cycle. That's how you start to build...
...still has a big lead in quantity of atomic explosive and its Air Force has a better chance than the enemy's of getting weapons on target. But this superiority soon will be reduced in effect because the inferior power may be able to cripple the superior one. Both might be smashed, but neither has any sure or even probable defense against the other...