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...disgusted and outraged by the Peninsula's advertisement and sponsorship of an event entitled: "Spade Kicks: A Symposium on Modernity and the Negro as a Paradigm of Sexual Liberation." The terms "spade" and "Negro" used to identify African-Americans have angered and offended the Black community. "Spade" is an epithet similar to "nigger" in its derogatory denotation of African-Americans. Likewise, while the term "Negro" was historically used to describe African-Americans until the 1960s, its usage without qualification is now considered unacceptable and offensive. Furthermore, the title's assertion of the "Negro as a Paradigm of Sexual Liberation" invokes...
...title and the following quotation from Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road,"...just old-fashioned spade kicks. What other kicks are there?" The image generated by the picture is one of Blacks as entertainment for whites. This image is intensified by the use of the word "paradigm" in the title and Kerouac's quotation, which implies that this kind of performance is an exclusively Black activity: "What other kicks are there?" The title and flier are not only intellectually irresponsible but blatantly racist,and we consider them to be nothing less than hate speech...
Late last week, Peninsula hung posters around campus advertising a lecture we are sponsoring entitled, "Spade Kicks: A Symposium on Modernity and the Negro as a Paradigm of Sexual Liberation...
...your criticism, a fundamental distinction you seem to be very interested in is that between metaphor and metonymy, and you characterize classical literature as essentially metonymic, and modernist literature as metaphoric. Could you fit your own work into this paradigm...
...speakers ... will present the thesis that the breakdown of the Black family ... resulted largely from the actions of white liberals of the 1950s and 1960s who saw in Blacks a paradigm of sexual liberation," read Vergonis's letter...