Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fist of the officers, AAA has sponsored the public condemnation of "the erroneous and racist" sentiments expressed by Professor Harvey C. Mansfield Jr., issued demands for the development of an ethnic studies requirement under the core curriculum, and called for an official investigation into the role of "institutionalized racism" at Harvard, among other things. We consider these actions--which were initiated and executed with neither general deliberation nor a democratic vote--unrepresentative and disdainful of the wide-ranging diversity of views among Asians at Harvard...
Take the coalition's original flyer, which declared that the sins of a "Peculiar Institution" thrive at Harvard. Coalition members should try to focus on reality. If they believe that the racism that accompanied the slave system is really alive at Harvard, then they will be surprised at the injustice and racial inequality that exists in the real world. Harvard is far from the "plantation" and would be even farther if these minority students helped to unify the student body...
...pains me to have to defend myself against accusations of racism. I am not racist or anti-Arab. Rather, I am deeply committed to working for better race relations and intercultural harmony at Harvard. It was this commitment that prompted me to run for election to the SAS last year...
...also offended by the manner in which the charges were made. Why did neither Ms. Sahyoun nor Ms. Rabie even once attempt to speak with me before publicly airing their thinly-veiled charge of racism? Why did they make no effort to get my side of the story? Why, instead, did they rely wholly on hearsay in making their very serious, very wrong accusations...
...look forward to continuing to work on the SAC for the betterment of race and intercultural relations at Harvard. False and unsubstantiated charges of racism--like those with which Ms. Sahyoun and Ms. Rabie attacked me--are a source or racial and ethnic tension on this campus, not the solution...