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...entered Harvard in September of 1973, the same month that Prof. Kilson launched a slanderous attack against the Afro-American student organization at Harvard for failing to recognize what he called the values of "assimilation," and implying that those students with social awareness are somehow opposed to "academic excellence...
...issue of the perpetuation of racist stereotypes cannot hide behind the cry of "freedom," as Prof. Kilson, the Lampoon editors, and others have tried to do. We are not at a point in our history when racism and discrimination are no longer issues and when we can all "afford to laugh" at the stereotypes of the "past." What next in the name of "freedom"? The resurrection of black-face humor...
...Martin Kilson, there are very few Afro-Americans who can afford to hide in the soap-bubble sanctuary of Harvard tenure and launch attacks against those who are acting for change. What have you done for Afro-American students in your years here, Prof. Kilson? How are you tackling the "massive problems," except by serving as a voice of backlash and reaction attacking progressive Afro-American students...
...response to Prof. Kilson's letter published on March 15, I must indeed agree that the Moonies do have the right of free speech and that the Lampoon does have the right of freedom of the press, and, protected by these rights, the two groups may certainly publish and publicize their material until the Judgment Day (and possibly beyond). However, the so-called "elements among Jews here" and the "certain sections of black militants" to which Prof. Kilson refers also have their rights of free speech--rights to protest as vigorously and vehemently as they feel is necessary any wrongs...
Furthermore, there is a disturbing strain of racial and religious prejudice underlying Prof. Kilson's remarks which must not go unnoticed by any thinking member of the Harvard-Radcliffe community. Prof. Kilson owes every Jewish and black student an apology for his advocacy of the abrogation of their first amendment rights and for the sour notes of prejudice apparent in his letter. Stephen Alton Saperstein...