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...Green waltzed out of Cambridge with a 78-59 win, then took the back end of the home-and-home series a month later in Hanover, 69-67. Those two losses, coupled with a 72-62 loss at Columbia, left the Crimson 1-3 in the Ivy League and virtually out of contention before the exam break even started...
Hugh Liebert's "Black History Month Considered" (Opinion, Feb. 25) betrays a bias that views all cultural constructs of minority groups as invalid or inferior and, in addition, his anecdotes often paint the actions of black individuals as being instructive in understanding black Americans in general...
...Liebert, Black History Month is beneficial when we remember such figures as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Jackie Robinson, who are agreeable to Liebert, but he becomes dubious when people glorify the Black Panthers and the "disreputable" Paul Robeson (these are characterizations which we would call very debatable and some of them are simply outrageous...
However, it would be ridiculous to denounce the study of all American history because it contains the story of the Ku Klux Klan. Black History Month is a claim to black cultural and historical equality, not a "silly therapeutic excess...
Liebert does not note that racism, an ideology that views minority groups as culturally and/or biologically inferior, is also a social construction. At their core, Black History Month and Kwanzaa are simply cultural constructions drafted to fight against racism, the most irrational construct of all. They cannot be considered outside of that context. JASON B. PHILLIPS '99 March 1, 1999 The writer is vice-president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students Association...