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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...
...Kerrigan has a right to be proud of her Southern heritage. And I believe she has a right to show it. What angers me is that she has chosen to display her pride in a manner that I as a fellow Southerner cannot comfortably share...
...South, with its culture and all of its emblems, is just as much a part of my life as it must be for Ms. Kerrigan. A statue of general Lee is one of the most prominent landmarks in New Orleans--and I point it out for tourists and visitors just as proudly as I point out the spots where musicians like Louis Armstrong first introduced jazz to the world...
...economic rape of the South perpetrated by the carpetbaggers hurt Blacks as well as whites. By not using the economic influence they brought with them to forge a just peace and an equitable enfranchisement of all Southern citizens (including women, Ms. Kerrigan), they ensured that the bitterness which festered throughout the occupation would erupt once they and the federal troops left. Over 125 years later, that bitterness seems to persist, rearing its ugly head not only in the South, but in places all over the country--like Los Angeles, for instance...
...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