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WITHOUT question, a scholar could write volumes exposing what some may euphemistically label "racially insensitive," or realists may more appropriately characterize as racist accusations and generalizations leveled against minority student organizations in Albert Hsia's editorial of March 9, 1989, "Minority Group Self-Segregation." The points that could be made would undoubtedly be quite valid, yet there is a deeper issue that might be addressed, Crimson responsibility...
Bush's remarks come at a time of renaissance for the nation's 117 historically black colleges. During the 1970s, many of the best black students deserted such institutions for Ivy League schools. Today, spurred in part by racist outbreaks on predominantly white campuses, African-American students are rediscovering the nurturing atmosphere and pride in a shared heritage that made black campuses attractive to their parents' generation...
...Committee. He even promoted his love of black music, strumming a guitar and warbling at Washington rhythm-and-blues clubs. At the same time, Atwater -- who cut his political teeth as a protege of South Carolina's once segregationist Senator Strom Thurmond -- downplayed his role in devising the crypto-racist Willie Horton ads that helped Bush win the White House. "That's in the past," he insisted...
...community needs celebrate the diversity that Harvard-Radcliffe does have. To expect students who come from ethnic communities to disassociate themselves from their previous experience is ridiculous, and to deny minority students who do not come from ethnic communities the opportunity to share experiences and celebrate a heritage is racist. It is racist because America is a pluralist society where different experiences should not be ranked in order of desirability with monolithic Anglo-Saxon Protestant sensibilities on top. Anyone who has lived in Hawaii, Los Angeles, Puerto Rico, or New York knows that multicultural and amalgam communities are the norm...
...Howard students didn't buy the rationale for having Atwater on the board. They argued that Atwater's role in Bush's recent campaign, which many believe played on white racist fears, was more important than the money Atwater could attract to Howard from fellow Republicans. The $179 million in federal funds that Howard received this year could not obscure Atwater's masterminding of a dirty campaign which included the racially-tinged Willie Horton issue...