Word: posterer
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...letter addressed to all members of the Harvard community, Jewett said that a statement issued by this office last week on the matter "did not adequately acknowledge the high level of hurt, outrage and frustration which the poster caused for Black people and others in this community...
...poster clearly contained racist language and in general was so offensive that it should be totally unacceptable to the Harvard community," the letter reads...
...second half of the staff opinion, the poster did exactly what the staff editorial above does: It reproduced harmful (much worse than "insensitive") epithets in order to strike them down...
...problem with the poster is that it required too much prior knowledge. To the poster's designer and Peninsula staffers, it was obvious that the poster's allusion to ugly stereotypes of Blacks (promoted by white heroes of the sexual revolution like the Jack Kerouac and the Paul Tillich) was an attempt to discredit those who have promulgated them. To others, it wasn't obvious, and that's Peninsula replaced the posters...
...conclude by expressing my concurrence with the cogent and sharp response to this latest racist incident at Harvard that one of our Black undergraduates, Tamara Duckworth '92, made in an interview to The Boston Globe. Duckworth, remarked that--"I consider the language of this [Peninsula] poster to be nothing less than hate speech, and that this kind of racism can be cloaked under the guise of free speech in an outrage." Martin L. Kilson Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government