Word: mcgruder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...AAAHA provides a network of people who understand what it's like to be both a minority and a Harvard graduate--a combination AAAHA member Kevin McGruder '79 says can be especially uncomfortable...
...executive director of a New York non-profit, McGruder says many of the white people he encounters do not expect to hear that he is a Harvard graduate...
...McGruder says other black people frequently question why he chose Harvard over a historically black college...
...Some people are always fearful that a black alumni association will divide or keep people separate from the University, but I feel that it has the potential to do the opposite," McGruder says. "My strongest network from Harvard was the black students I knew there. Keeping in touch with them has gotten me back in touch with Harvard...
...rallying behind The Boondocks. Readers who don't appreciate it suffer from "irony deficiency," wrote columnist Kristin Tillotson in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, where letters at first ran 8 to 1 against the strip: "The Boondocks exposes racial issues alive and festering under the rug of polite society." McGruder says he's exploring "those murky depths where you're trying to figure out what's racism, what's ignorance, what's naivete." When an old white lady pats Riley on the head and calls him "cutie pie," the boy responds angrily that he's "nobody's pet Negro." Neither...