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Black professionals and intellectuals of my generation--the generation shaped by Martin Luther King's humanistic civil rights tradition--remain firm in our disgust for racist behavior, whether perpetrated as anti-Black racism or anti-Semitic racism. Somebody among the African-American students at Brandeis--a university founded in part by Holocaust survivors--ought to have enough understanding of Dr. King's humanistic legacy to come forth, boldly, and denounce Black History Month invitations to anti-Semites...
...what about that magazine's encore performance the following spring: the "spade" controversy? Remember the blatantly racist posters depicting a Black woman performing a striptease in front of a white male audience? Remember the "conference" at which "experts" claimed that the sexual revolution "destroyed" the Black family...
Where was the BGLSA this time around? Where was RUS? Where were the ASA, the CSA or the KSA? Where was the SAA? Hillel? Certainly, racism and racist images don't solely concern black women, but the general impression, left by the `campus' weak response was, "That doesn't concern...
...course we might decide to outlaw sexist or racist speech. But then, to be fair, we would also have to outlaw saying the Lord's name in vain. If a fundamentalist Christian can maintain civility in the presence of infidels in her classroom, why can't we show the same forebearance toward those we consider racist and sexist? There is no good reason why the state--and by extension the university--should treat bigots, evangelical fundamentalists, and politically-correct proselytizers any differently...
...Black" or "White" or "Hispanic," we should "go back to Marx and Weber and Durkheim and Du Bois and Simone de Beauvoir and other historical sociologists who are concerned about providing an account of...rhetorical enactments." In other words, we must question the origins of certain racial and racist constructions before we condemn/define/evaluate people in accordance with them. West is interested in the history of the idea of race rather than its current definitions...