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...disturbed by David W. Brown's column "Burying the Bell Curve," (signed piece, Feb. 22, 1995) not for it s absurd and misguided attacks on Charles Murray, but for its total lack of original or insightful thought on The Bell Curve debate...
Brown is willing to declare what many others still refuse to acknowledge: that the Murray-Herrnstein tract is simply the credo of white supremacy dressed up in raggedy pseudo-scientific garb. The book--and the reception it has received in so-called respectable circles--is a clear manifestation of the continuing power of racism and of the evil virus's continuing effort to overwhelm white America's psychic struggle to live up to its proclaimed allegiance to humanism and opportunity for all. Lee A. Daniels Fellow, W.E.B. DubBois Institute for Afro-American Research Preceptor, Expository Writing Program
While the Harvard name often, erroneously or not, grants a tacit imprimatur to those operating under its aegis--Charles Murray '65 and the late Richard Herrnstein come to mind--one would hope that the administration has enough faith in its students to allow them to be the final arbiters in important personal decisions...
More racism creeps in when Murray addresses America's racial problems. He urges Blacks to pursue a "wise ethnocentrism"--that is, not striving for intellectual advancement and representation in the upper echelons of education and the workplace, but being content with achievement as musicians and athletes...
...Murray, like Holocaust revisionists and the Ku Klux Klan, must be vilified. His Harvard connections and clever insinuations have enabled his rotten work to poison political debate. The battle against The Bell Curve is not a contest of competing scientific conceptions but a struggle between good and evil. Blacks are the only Americans that are still forced to defend their humanity in the face of spurious slurs. Charles Murray and all he stands for must be driven from academic, social and political discourse like a diseased...