Word: racisms
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Without considering--or rather focusing on--this discrepancy, no discussion of affirmative action can claim even to have begun. For the difficulty is here; it is not recruitment and it is not racism. Rudenstine in cautious terms rebuts the argument that affirmative action stigmatizes blacks, but he shows by his silence on the crucial point that he is afraid of stigmatizing blacks. Affirmative action prevents its defenders from speaking frankly about what they have done, about what they had to do, to bring diversity. They should not think their silence goes unnoticed by students, by the general public...
...long twilight struggle for justice will be won only if racism is eradicated. America salves her conscience with economic programs and formal civil rights legislation. Yet our nation continues to sin, and an egregious guilt rests upon our soul...
...successor regime were not fully-fledged systems established and perpetuated by the white majority to steal the labor of African-Americans and deny them the opportunity to compete equally in society." In fact, I called slavery "repugnant," and I described the "successor regime" as "broadly institutionalized American racism...
Daniels continues, "But then, I suppose that's his backup for implicitly declaring there are no vestiges of the legacy of slavery and Grand Apartheid still at work in American Society." I stated in my letter that "racism, repression and exploitation" continue. This fact does not make all whites guilty. Not only did I not "implicitly" make the declarations ascribed to me, I explicitly stated the contrary...
Harvard's KKK is sure to find support from their natural allies among conservative and right-wing students. It will not be too hard to persuade some of them to switch from promoting covert prejudice to endorsing overt racism. For example, fans of The Bell Curve are potential converts. Although it will be a bitter struggle, Harvard's Ku Klux Klan must organize...