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Moreover, the supposed befuddlement of the staff surrounding West’s claim that Summers is “hanging out with the wrong crowd” is an insult to the intelligence of anyone who took the time to listen to the entire NPR interview. Had the quote been framed correctly, it would have been obvious to the readers of their editorial that the phrase “the wrong crowd” is in no way referring to what this staff calls “…anyone whose political view differs from West?...
...having stemmed from “thoughtlessness.” While it is true that West has not directly contacted any member of the organization, he has expressed his appreciation for Harvard students both through his staff assistant and in his interview with Tavis Smiley on National Public Radio (NPR) earlier this week...
...staff’s editorial should have placed more focus on West’s entire NPR interview. Hearing the interview in its entirety, listeners learn that Summers had the nerve to question West’s scholarship without ever having engaged it. Summers even went so far as to ask West to “check in” with him every few months and update him on the process of his academic work. West certainly is not above being questioned by the president of this University; Summers is indeed his boss. However, Summers had no right to show...
...August 6, Crown will publish "American Skin: Pop Culture, Big Business, and the End of White America," by Leon Wynter. PW is intrigued. "Making an indisputable if sometimes obvious case for non-white influence on American culture, Wynter, an NPR commentator and former WSJ columnist, here joins a chorus chronicling the dissolution of America's once-clear racial delineations into a 'transracial culture'...The downside of 'transracialism' is 'the steady erosion of black identity as the organizing principle for community development,' but Wynter concludes that 'the future is not about black people leading black people [but] about black people leading...
...producer stationed at the back of the auditorium periodically cued NPR staffers at the front of the room, who signaled for the audience to begin and end applause. Certain audience members were also called on to ask questions they had submitted at the beginning of the program...