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From my vantage point, these two events reflect a persistent need among many Blacks for cathartic responses or symbolic rebellious responses to racist patterns in American society. It never ceases to fascinate a pragmatic leftist member of the Black American intelligentsia like myself that the appetite for Black solidarist catharsis is still quite strong among competent Black middle-class students (or working-class students soon-to-become bourgeois professionals) at top-level colleges like our fair Harvard College...
...this mature way of managing the trauma of persistent racist victimization of Black folks in American life (trauma recently reinforced by the racist discourse found in The Bell Curve, by Charles A. Murray '65 and the late Harvard professor Richard J. Herrnstein), you should be formulating week-by-week and month-by-month numerous projects to assist that long-haul task of outfitting the Black poor and underclass youth to read adequately, to manage math, to replace vulgarity with beauty, to overcome hyper-macho, anarchic and anti-humanistic values and personal identities...
Professor Martin offered a unique angle on The Bell Curve by tracing the evolution of racist theorization from the Hamitic myth, to Thomas Jefferson's notions of natural aristocracy, to Social Darwinism, to The Bell Curve theory. His speech raised interesting points that serve to further the debate. Whether we choose to challenge or substantiate his ideas, we do so in the spirit of academic pursuit...
Instead of focusing on Afrocentricism and the "symbolically stirring and solidaristically glamorous" Kwanzaa Rituals celebration proposal, Kilson said there is a "mature way of managing the trauma of persistent racist victimization of Black folks in American life...
This movie on the life of baseball great Ty Cobb -- who once held 40 major league hitting and base-running records and whose lifetime batting average of .367 is still unsurpassed -- is not about baseball. It's about a venomous, wife-beating racist who saw himself as a genius. TIME movie critic Richard Schickel says some filmgoers may think this is a "messy movie, sometimes repetitive, sometimes too compressed and allusive." Still he says this is "irrelevant in comparison to the horrific fascination of his story...