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Last year, in an Executive Board meeting of the Harvard Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA), heated discussion ended in the decision by some members that a palm tree was an offensive image for a poster design. If palm trees offend, Jada Pinkett Smith professing a message of love and tolerance never had a chance...
...recent controversy surrounding the “heteronormative” speech by Pinkett Smith at this year’s Cultural Rhythms indicates once again that the BGLTSA is more dedicated to pointless rhetoric than substantive change. But more than that, the BGLTSA has disingenuously dragged Pinkett Smith—who talked about the roles men and women can play in our evolving society—into their battle for further inclusion within the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations...
...Foundation, several members of student groups protested the application on the grounds that the BGLTSA promotes a deviant lifestyle. While it is deplorable that groups aimed at the value of diversity would choose to criticize the BGLTSA in this way, it is similarly deplorable that the BGLTSA has hijacked Pinkett Smith’s speech to further its own skewed agenda...
...Heteronormativity” is hardly a pressing concern when issues like hate crimes and job discrimination plague LGBT Americans more frequently and devastatingly. And yet still the BGLTSA focuses its efforts on demonizing Pinkett Smith, who spoke from her heart and personal experience in a plea for a respect for diversity. How dare...
Ofole U. “Fofie” Mgbako ’08, a performer in the Cultural Rhythms show who watched Pinkett Smith’s speech, said he thought the speech was “insightful...