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Everybody likes to pick on Professor of Harvey C. Mansfield. His course, Government 1061: The History of Political Theory II (which he is not teaching this year), is one of the most difficult on political theory at Harvard, and his Monday night introduction of Ward Connerly at the ARCO forum generated another round of scowls. But does he deserve this kind of knee-jerk hostility...
...remarks, Mansfield described Martin Luther King Jr. as a "most honored black," and, in a comment more critical of contemporary society than of Malcolm X, he labeled the Black Muslim leader as one of the "most fashionable." He wasn't talking about Malcolm X's clothes; he was describing the popularity of "X" hats and shirts in the early 1990s accompanying Spike Lee's powerful movie. One has to agree that most of Mansfield's comments on disagreements between past black leaders were historically accurate, if not insightful...
After Connerly's speech, angry studentsconfronted Mansfield on the Forum dais about hisintroductory remarks...
Jobe G. Danganan '99 said Mansfield'scomparison of King and Malcolm X was "extremelyoffensive," while Redmond said she was "outraged"by the remark...
...Mansfield later refused any additional comment