Word: racism
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...lucky winners took home a box of “X-Rated Fortune Cookies,” bearing a squint-eyed, buck-toothed caricature of a “Chinese” waiter, scandalizing his blond-haired, blue-eyed customer with sexual secrets of the Orient. When the gross racism of this artifact was brought to the attention of the BGLTSA board, there was no official response. This is the consequence of an agenda of visibility that fails to think politically—or, more precisely, to think at all: these decontextualized performances of politics serve only to make their...
...every child of empire wanted to do something noble, like translate the Bhagavad Gita or teach for a year in Sierra Leone. Sadly, not so. In Britain, the imperialist adventure produced a belief that Britons were better than anyone with dark skin. In my hometown, imperialism bred a pervasive racism. When John Barnes, a great black soccer player, first played for Liverpool, the fans greeted him by throwing bananas on the field and making monkey noises. This was not in the 1950s...
...every child of empire wanted to do something noble, like translate the Bhagavad Gita or teach for a year in Sierra Leone. Sadly, not so. In Britain, the imperialist adventure produced a belief that Britons were better than anyone with dark skin. In my hometown, imperialism bred a pervasive racism. When John Barnes, a great black soccer player, first played for Liverpool, the fans greeted him by throwing bananas on the field and making monkey noises. This was not in the 1950s...
...vanguard of criticizing the administration for its initially tepid response to the crimes, staging a brief stand-off at Woodbridge Hall (Yale’s Mass. Hall-equivalent) two Fridays ago. The anti-Muslim invective allegedly left on Lo’s door rightly invited serious concerns about racism on campus. CSY says it’s now working on the broader problem of racial and ethnic insensitivity—a problem it claims is endemic to the administration and the student body. This may be an initiative long overdue, but we still have to address how the discussion...
More fundamentally, the SVMP admissions policy denies no opportunities to non-minority students; it only opens up doors that would otherwise be closed to these talented and exceptional minority leaders. Today’s business world is still, unfortunately, haunted by the very real specter of racism, and superficial nods to colorblindness can only hinder progress. SVMP serves as an irreplaceable booster to qualified minority students, helping them to prepare for a world in which they will almost certainly be victims of deep-seated prejudice and bias...