Word: kilson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...each other to shreds in the fishbowl of the news media--all the while under the guise of intellectual argument--I am advised by LeRoi Jones' words--"check yourself." This was precisely the reaction that seized me by the end of last week's heated exchange between Dr. Martin Kilson and black students over the nature of Social Sciences 5 (The Afro-American Experience in America...
...Kilson's out-of-hand dismissal of the legitimacy of black student protest was little more than embarrassing. His was a blind reaction that saw the black students' criticisms as something of a personal vendetta; and while attributing to the black students "anti-intellectual" attitudes, his remarks were disappointingly sophomoric. Dr. Kilson's reactions are particularly surprising in light of the posture he assumed with regard to black protest in an article of the Harvard Journal of Negro Affairs ("Responses to Blackness: Negro Americans and Africa...
Whether all this adds up to a favorable or unfavourable "racial image" (whatever on earth that may be) I don't know. Frankly, I couldn't care less. I can say, however, that Jeffrey Howard is perfectly correct in remarking that "Kilson's views are not particularly black," if by this he means I resist anti-intellectualism and racial bigotry. Indeed, he could have said more: I despise racial bigots and the know-nothing mentality, and am rather proud of it. Martin Kilson Assistant Professor of Government
...undersigned wish to express our opinion that Professor Kilson's comments concerning the criticisms of Soc Sci 5 by black students were ill-advised. The Ad Hoc Committee of Black Students was duly elected and empowered to act as an advisory and investigative body for the black students of the college, by the black students. Since it has not yet made a definitive judgment of the course, any comments concerning its final recommendations are premature. Also, because faculty-student dialogue is essential to the development of any course, we feel that the use of personalized attacks can serve no useful...
...virtue of his color, Kilson's opinions have been accepted as authoritative on black issues at Harvard. I believe Kilson is using this fact to give his opinions undue weight. This sort of misuse of his racial image is at least as "disgustingly anti-intellectual" as the alleged demand that only blacks should teach courses such as Social Science 5. It should be clear from this point forward that Kilson's views are not particularly black--he seems to have much more in common with his old-line colleagues in the Government department than with us. Jeffrey P. Howard...