Word: racists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Blacks one of their most viable connections with American society and culture, as well as providing Blacks their first experience with managing soverign institutions. But Christian activity has also offered Blacks and whites one of the few viable means for bridging the differences that have divided them in our racist civilization. From the early endeavors to educate Afro-American slaves, through the Abolitionist Movement, and the 20th century Civil Rights Movement, Christian beliefs and organizations have often been the cutting-edge against white supremacist negation of Afro-Americans...
Being an old-fashioned integrationist and an optimist about the capacity of the current generation of young Americans to rid American life of its hoary racist ways, I would suggest to the Seymour Society that they give some thought to this endeavor. Instead of pursuing the route of other all-Black organizations existing at Harvard--and we have too many already--intensifying the already excessive isolation of white and Black student experiences here, why not strike out a new course for once...
...basic religious groups around Harvard--among white Protestants and white charismatic Catholics, and perhaps among some white Muslims and Jews. It would be a bold undertaking to use the Seymour Society as the cutting-edge of a back-to-basic renascence among religiously inclined Harvard students, cutting across the racist, sexist, and ethnocentric boundaries that have for so long distorted the civilizing force of religious values in American life...
...Science E.O. Wilson's Core course, "Evolutionary Biology." The demonstrators chose Wilson's class because he is both the symbolic and the scientific guru of Sociobiology by virtue of his two books Sociobiology: The New Synthesis(1975) and On Human Nature(1978). Besides launching personal attacks on Wilson, his "racist theory," and calling for public debate, INCAR seeks practical action: the removal of Wilson's class from the Core Curriculum...
...difficult to understand how anyone who reads Wilson's books could believe his disposition is invidious. The theory he presents is certainly not racist. With the emphasis on the biological unity of homo sapiens,sociobiology could serve as a potent antidote to racism. If Wilson is a visionary, as many believe, his vision is still blurry. Sociobiology remains imprecise and amorphous. It is not a specific theory about human behavior, and allows for a wide range of possibilities. There is no doubt, however, that Wilson remains more concerned with scientific theory than with social prophecy...