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...sought. The lesson that Glory teaches -- and it is finding an audience -- is this: it was not the Great White Paternalist alone who freed the slaves and made them American citizens. It was also blacks who freed themselves. These were the blacks who enlisted, trained, suffered, endured condescension and insult, disciplined themselves, fought for the right to fight and the opportunity to die in the pursuit of their freedom and manhood...
...Jane Fonda struts lycra-clad through home entertainment centers and the word "creamy" becomes an insult, 10 percent butterfat ice cream has joined Spam in the gastronomic archives. But for the true purist, even frozen yogurt tastes too rich...
...discrimination, those facts make it easy for blacks to conclude that someone is plotting their extinction. But, as Harvard political scientist Martin Kilson points out, it is "a long way from believing some whites would like to - exterminate blacks to believing they are capable of doing so." Conspiracy theories insult blacks by suggesting that they are hapless victims powerless to resist a racist scheme. They imply that the African Americans who have become mayors and police chiefs in dozens of cities are either willing participants in the plot or inept dupes...
Carting Noriega off for trial in America is another insult to Panama, and a mockery of the notions of justice it is intended to celebrate. After all, his crimes against the U.S. are pretty trivial compared with his crimes against his own country. It doesn't really blunt the insult that the Panamanians are happy enough to see him go, and offered him up to us as a sort of reward...
...plans in this regard, putting the field of African studies on a status of parity with Middle East and Latin American studies. The field of African studies has been badly neglected at Harvard--much more so than Middle East or Latin American studies--and we should not add insult to injury by continuing this neglect in Harvard's new capital campaign. Martin Kilson Professor of Government Acting Chair Committee on African Studies