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...writting in response to students' request for clear statements from members of the administration regarding the language used in Peninsula's advertisement of an event they first called "Spade Kicks: the Negro as a Paradigm of Sexual Liberation...
...flyer, which was posted in Cabot and MatherHouse two weeks ago, advertised a symposium heldlast Wednesday entitled "Spade Kicks: A symposiumon Modernity and the Negro as a Paradigm of SexualLiberation." The flyer, which showed a picture ofa Black woman performing a striptease for a whiteaudience, was voluntary removed by magazinemembers after some students raised objections...
...symposium went on but, it was marked byheated exchanges between audience members and by awalkout staged by 40 students after one speakerused the word "Negro" 15 times and called sexualliberation the primary cause of the break down ofsome Black families...
SIMILARLY, Peninsula's outrageous poster publicizing a talk entitled "Spade Kicks: a Symposium on Modernity and the Negro as a Paradigm of sexual Liberation" did nothing to promote dialogue, and only stirred intergroup disputes. The racial slurs and allusions to negative stereotypes of Black sexuality--including the poster's image of a Black woman performing a strip before a white audience--are hurtful and insensitive...
Peninsula Council member Chris Vergonis '92 explained "the speakers used the word 'Negro' to place the symposium in its historical context." But historical context to some is racist and offensive to others...