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Jeffrey Vanke is really trying to have his cake and eat it too. But we will not let him. Today's Vanke (April 6 letter) wraps himself in victim colors while yesterday's Vanke (Feb. 21 letter) rather haughtily dabbled in what Martin Kilson characterized as a mode of amoral discourse on our country's racist legacy that was tinged with "neo-White supremacist arrogance." Jeffrey Vanke now wants the Harvard community to rally round the Vanke flag, insulating him from what he considers an unwarranted bad name...
...human beings' responsibility for the vicious anti-human deeds done in the past and the name of our societies and nation-states. Jeffrey Vanke offers not a clue that he understands what serious dialogue must be about in our era. --Lee A. Daniels, Fellow, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute; Martin Kilson, Professor of Government
...does shed some light on Harvard's history of exclusion. However, the issues of ethnic studies and Prof. Wilson's decision to come to Harvard are rather tangential to the subject of race relations. The only significant original piece in the handbook is Thomson Professor of Government Martin L. Kilson's essay on last year's Million Man March and black politics. This essay, while an intellectual gem, seems rather incongruous because it does not address the Harvard campus...
...their libelous letter, Daniels and Kilson present case-studies of exacerbation of attempts at reconciliation. In my original letter, I implored Professor Kilson, "What can we Americans do to soothe our collective soul?" Daniels takes a 25 year-old who denies any personal guilt for the slavery of 130 years ago and he attacks that person as one might attack a Patrick Buchanan. Kilson calls my letter "morally vacuous...
...message to Lee Daniels, Martin Kilson and other readers is this: If you find someone with whom you disagree on racial issues, do not automatically label that person a neo-Confederate White supremacist. Instead, ask questions and pursue meaningful dialogue on how we can live together as the one human race that we are. --Jeffrey W. Vanke Ph.D. Candidate Harvard History