Word: kilson
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Thomson Research Professor of Government Martin L. Kilson, whose two-volume work The Making of Black Intellectuals is scheduled for publication next year, wrote a piece that appeared in the June 27 edition of the online periodical The Black Commentator...
...piece, Kilson placed blame for the recent events at HLS—which included a web post that used “nig” and an e-mail that defended the use of the word “nigger”—upon Kennedy and his controversial book, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, which was published earlier this year...
...Clearly, these Black-people-harassing-and-insulting events at Harvard Law School during the Spring Term 2002 were set in motion by Randall Kennedy’s ‘Nigger,’” Kilson wrote. “Kennedy crudely embraced the money-grubbing cynicism underlying his decision to use ‘nigger’ as the first word in his book’s title...
...Kilson classified Kennedy as a “Black-rejectionist” and described his stances on the use of the word “nigger” as “idiotic...
...Kennedy’s core purpose in producing ‘Nigger’ was to assist White Americans in feeling comfortable with using the epithet ‘nigger,’” Kilson wrote...