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...There is simply no valid intellectual or pedagogical reason for BSA to bring Jeffries here. While God knows that Black Americans--after a couple of centuries of American slavery and another century-plus of modern racism--have a lot to be angry about and even full of rage, the path of anti-Reason and neurotic Ethnocentrism offered by Jeffries must be unacceptable...
Black students at Harvard and elsewhere must stand up against Jeffries' kind of moral rot...if only because it violates the great moral legacy to Black folks--and to all decent Americans--of Martin Luther King Jr. The way out of America's vicious racist legacy lies down a path very different from that offered by Jeffries...
...path must involve Black/Jewish concord--regardless of the issues in conflict between Blacks and Jews at any given time--and that path must involve mutual respect among Blacks and Jews for each others' historical wounds. Jeffries' presence here violates both of these paths. You dishonor the best in the African American heritage and the memory of King. Martin S. Kilson Professor of Government
...they are fraying now, it is at least in part due to the prevalence of demagogues who wish to claim that there is only one path to virtuous American- ness: paleoconservatives like Jesse Helms and Pat Robertson who think this country has one single ethic, neoconservatives who rail against a bogey called multiculturalism -- as though this culture was ever anything but multi! -- and pushers of political correctness who would like to see grievance elevated into automatic sanctity...
WHETHER ONE CHOOSES the path of social or political action, the new tradition of student apathy at Harvard must be broken. The notion that issues worthy of student protest went out with the '60s and '70s is completely misconceived...