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...vacancies present two more opportunities for Lewis and University President Lawrence H. Summers to appoint a racial minority to the position of master—something that has only happened twice in Harvard history. Former Dunster House Master Karel Liem, who left his position in 2001, was the last professor of color to serve as master, and he and others have called on Lewis to diversify the masters’ ranks...
This odious notion of racial or sexual determinism is the primary source of conservatives’ objections to diversity senators, as well as to the larger idea of “diversity” as an inherent social good. The assumption that a black person (or white for that matter) has a certain social value, simply because of his or her skin color, is patently racist. If, for example, a black family were denied access to a “restricted” community because it was believed that their moving in would detract from the social value, we would...
Some might find irony in the fact that schools that once discriminated against blacks and gays now take pride in discriminating for racial and sexual minorities, but we are not laughing. This “diversity” movement is the kindler, gentler Social Darwinism of the left, operating on the flawed assumption that a person’s thoughts and beliefs can be ascertained by knowing the color of his or her skin or the sex of the person to whom he or she is attracted. More than two generations after the fall of Jim Crow and almost forty...
...discussion with Vaux was respectful and well-intentioned. There was not, nor has there been since, any name-calling or race-baiting. There has been, however, disappointment. I was, and still am curious why the segue was made. The song we sang expressed no Ebonics terminology, and the racial diversity of the group did not reflect the standard African-American community as it might otherwise have had all of us been black. The segue was “clear” in its intention to connect our artistic work—one that seeks to break down traditional conceptions...
...parallel is exactly the problem I wanted to bring to light. The color of one’s skin cannot continue to be grounds for assumptions about the languages they speak, understand or relate to. And if it does, it must be analyzed with concerted sensitivity to the larger racial issues that those assumptions reflect...