Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decision by the Black Students Association (BSA) to sponsor Wellesley Professor Tony Martin's speech at Harvard on the topic of racism and The Bell Curve was a highly irresponsible and blatantly offensive action...
Martin, who teachers Africana studies, is a well-known anti-Semite who claims that Jews are members of a 2000-year-old conspiracy against Africans. He is also the author of The Jewish Onslaught, a book which charges Jews with organizing a systematic campaign of racism against Blacks...
...speech, entitled, "The Bell Curve in Historical Context," was little more than a diatribe which sought to label Jews as the sole progenitors of racism-and later the slave trade-in Europe. The basis of his argument consisted of a portion of the Babylonian Talmud, a 2,000-year-old collection of religious writings, which contain a myth that describes Africans as a cursed people who are doomed to a history of servitude...
...President Kristen M. Clarke '97 said after the speech "Professor Martin is an intelligent, well-versed Black intellectual who bases his information on indisputable fact." She's right. Martin is intelligent, he is well versed and he does base his claims, loosely, on fact. The Talmud does contain some racism. And racism against Blacks has been rampant in Europe for at least 500 years...
...major points, took less than 15 minutes of an hour-long speech, surely not the majority of time by anybody's, except an ignorant person's, standard. During the next 45 minutes, Martin demonstrated how Protestants, Catholics and atheists contributed to the evolution of the pseudo-scientific racism aimed at the descendants of Africa...