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...would like to respond to Karl Lampley's letter printed in the April 24 issue, in which he adamantly decried comparisons of Black and gay discrimination, on the basis that they are "very different things...
...Lampley's argument, first and foremost, insults the intelligence of those in the Harvard communtity who are socially and politically sensitive to discrimination issues. We strongly doubt that a person stating that Black and gay discrimination are similar is drawing an explicit, literal analogy--such an effort would be inane...
...April 24 letter to The Crimson, Karl W. Lampley '93 expresses the painful ignorance of gay and lesbian oppression that has plagued this nation and this august institution for decades. He is correct in saying that the discrimination against gay and lesbian recruits in the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) and the rest of the military is similar to the discrimination against Blacks that existed in those same institutions for years. He missed the brass ring, however, when he says that the similarity goes no further...
...Also, Lampley's position that Blacks have already secured an amount of social security, and so should not "band together to fight discrimination" of other people is simply dispicable. Does Lampley not remember Martin Luther King, Jr.'s exhortation that "injustice anywhere a threat to justice everywhere?" Matthew M. Shakespeare Harvard Divinity School...
...true that together we stand, divided we fall. But don't confuse these separate issues. It is not the morality of Blacks that is in question; it is the color of their skin and the deep-rooted inequalities that still exist in our society. Karl W. Lampley...