Word: ogletreeã
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Race is Harvard’s topic du jour. Cornel West’s defection to Princeton, Charles Ogletree??€™s crusade to win reparations for slavery, and last weekend’s rally supporting diversity are the stuff of debate in dorms and dining halls across campus...
...like this for Harvard. People like Ogletree must realize that institutions like Harvard will have to find ways to pay for the costs of defense and for potential settlements, if the suits advance that far. I propose that all such expenses faced by Harvard be taken first from Professor Ogletree??€™s salary and second from the budget of the Afro-American studies department. Perhaps then Ogletree will realize the costs of his lawsuit...
...though Summers recently made several attempts to reach out to West through Gates and Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree??€”both close friends and colleagues of West—those efforts proved too little, too late for West...
Much of the attention devoted to reparations, however, has failed to properly situate this recent litigation within the current movement for reparations for the descendents of black slaves. The ultimate goal of the litigation is not to exact reparations through suing corporations and institutions for payments. Ogletree??€™s recent op-ed in the New York Times stated that “litigation is required to promote this discussion because political accountability has not been forthcoming...
...Although Ogletree??€™s reparations plan brings greater prominence to the issue of modern racial disparities, it is neither a constructive nor practical means of dealing with the most shameful part of America’s history. Any attempt at reparations would most likely cause more harm than good...