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First, in her original letter to The Crimson, Ms. Clarke listed five scientifically-backed arguments regarding the relationship between melanin and superior intelligence...
Secondly, in regards to charges of my bigotry, I will again repeat the statement that was printed in The Crimson on Oct. 28, 1994: "The information [the Melanin Theory] is not necessarily something we believe but some information we think those pursuing a true understanding of the Bell curve Theory should either address, ignore or refute...
Essentially, the controversial professor claimed, Blacks, or "people of the sun," are superior to whites, or "people of the ice," because the melanin that makes their skin dark also endows them with greater physical strength and intelligence...
...President Kristen Clarke '97 wasn't here for the Jeffries lecture. But in a letter to the editors of The Crimson, Clarke made a series of assertions cerily reminiscent of the CUNY professor's racist theories. Among them, was the following: "Melanin endows Blacks with greater mental, physical and spiritual abilities--something which cannot be measured based on Eurocentric standards...
...disagree with the very premise of the staff's editorial, as it serves no useful purpose. We do not need to combat a growing sentiment among Harvard students that melanin equals superiority. Instead, the editorial serves only to aggravate racial tensions on a campus where past experience shows the balance to be a fragile...