Word: kerrigans
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...African-American. However, I am presenting my view not as a member of a specific ethnic group, but as a native Southerner. Through the forum of The Crimson I hope to speak to the entire Harvard community, but I am especially directing my comments to fellow Southerner Bridget L. Kerrigan...
Several days after Kerrigan's flag appeared, Timothy P. McCormick '91 hung a similar flag from Cabot with a sign reading "racism...
Protesters said yesterday that although Kerrigan and McCormack have the right to hang the flags, they find the action offensive...
...also comment briefly on Bridget Kerrigan's explanation of her vicious Confederate flag-hanging act which appeared in Thursday's Boston Globe. It strikes me as a sad commentary on our intellectual capacity at Harvard to elevate the level of our students' particularistic identities (e.g. ethnic, racial, national, religious, regional, gender, etc.) from a primitive and one-dimensional level to the cosmopolitan and humanistically sensitive. Here is how a bright senior at Harvard, Bridget Kerrigan, justifies her vicious...
...inform Ms. Kerrigan that the Nazi flag also symbolizes--for fascists and Nazis--"a heritage of character, dignity and courage." But in our epoch and in our place (here at Harvard College), both the Nazi flag and Confederate flag symbolize two instances of the modern world's cruelest institutions and events. This latter symbolism should, I submit, take precedent over Ms. Kerrigan's school-boyish, immature and romantic identification with Southern feudalistic and racist traditions. Martin L. Kilson Professor of Government