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...recent speech at Harvard, Dr. Khallid Muhammad, a member of the Nation of Islam, unilaterally condemned all whites. His views represent those of a strident group of activists which has preached Black supremacy, the deviancy of Jews and the innate iniquity of whites, all, ostensibly, in the name of faith. The faith they claim to represent is Islam...
Thus, Elijah Muhammad, the late messiah and absolute ruler of the Nation, preached a message of Black supremacy and racial isolation as intrinsic to Islam. Malcolm X, the foremost among Elijah's ministers, was also a disciple of bigotry until he reached his crucial epiphany when, brought into close contact with Muslims of every color at Mecca...
...what would then result? For within each group, there are smaller units, each of which experiences history in a different manner, and within these units. But wait a minute! Is this what we want? Do we really want to follow down a slippery slope that leads to complete alienation? Muhammad argues, "I didn't come to Harvard University to teach you to hate white people." But what exactly are you doing, Muhammad If you teach us that there is no truth beyond each subjective conciousness, what hope remains for any communication between individuals? And without communication, how can we possibly...
Apparently, however, Dr. Muhammad does not hold fruitful communication or coexistence as plausible or worthy values. His claim that Blacks should not trust Jews because of Israel's tendency to vote with South Africa on United Nations resolutions is premised on the view that the very fact of being Jewish entirely determines one's identity. As a result, Jews can only be "so-called...friends" to blacks because their very Jewishness causes them to resist Black aims. Opposition is inevitable...
...mind--it should forward the pursuit of truth. Without the shared assumptions that constitute the truth at any given point in human history, assumptions about the nature of common human experience, we are each reduced to an isolated clump of matter, Lacking any basis for communicatio with others. Muhammad's call for a new look at learning is a call for nothin short of total alienation. Harvard was not created in order to follow him into the abyss, but to find the planks with which a bridge may be built across it. Amalia Kessler...