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...many people have confused--and continue to confuse--the difference between the front page and the editorial page in remarking upon our news coverage of the Harvard community. Some, all too aware of the distinction, persist in condemning The Crimson as an institution for what they see to be the newspaper's stance on Harvard issues...
...goes on to suggest that "there is an economic structure of racism that will persist even if every white who hates Blacks goes through a total conversion." If this idea sounds like heresy, it's only because we have bought in so completely to the dogma that racism is the inalienable, indivisible expression of a general will on the part of whites living in the past, today and in the future. The liberal contention that Harrington puts forward is that most of the racial inequality that persists today is not the intentional result of discrimination, but primarily an economic phenomenon...
...action hold true whether the criterion is race, athletic ability or legacy status. Special treatment always has and always will breed the perception of illegitimacy and self-doubt. That doesn't mean that all recipients of special treatment are unqualified, or deserve to be questioned. But damaging impressions necessarily persist. One African-American student at the Business School recently expressed his disgust with preferential treatment in a letter to The Crimson: "if the policy is different for Blacks than for whites, then whites have an excuse to cry foul and Blacks, like myself, remain chained by our own self-doubt...
...Black Americans to improve in education, Kunjufu said, students need more Black teachers. He said myths persist in education that "Black and gifted can't go together" and that Black Americans need only the same facilities as whites, not role models and teachers...
Prep school wasn't a utopia back then and it isn't now: the issues of race and class still persist, but now in a way that more closely reflects the rest of the world. Preppies of all political persuasions have a greater sensitivity to problems of race and class...