Word: racists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard, Lydia Jackson, president of the university's Black Students Association, found her office calendar defaced with racist slogans, including TEN DAYS TO KILL and K.K.K. UNITE. She also received several frightening phone calls, one of which threatened her with rape if she did not "stop creating trouble and making noise on campus...
...threatened feel safe? Why do you not campaign also, long and hard and in detail, against those who make the threats, as well as against those who "normally" foster such outrages, encourage them, enjoy them, privately applaud them? Unless Massachusetts and University Halls have dispatched youthful agents to shout racist remarks or scribble the snotty graffitti on Harvard's bathroom and elevator walls, or Faculty members and other employees commit these offenses, it must be your White fellow students who do them. Why not find out who the culprits and their cliques are, and address yourselves to them...
...facts, stripped of Liberal-Radical sanctimony: Many White students here make many Black students (among others) often feel awful. Some Black students ask the Administration in effect for a place to escape from them. Some White students, instead of helping to cleanse the moral atmosphere that their racist fellows have polluted, join in the demand for a Black retreat. A typical exercise in White bourgeois scapegoating and self-service. Next you will support a Harvard Black Crimson. No wonder Malcolm x thought the had to contend with devils...
Whether or not such incidents are isolated or indicate the presence of organized racist activity on campus, and whether they presage actual violence or not, their psychological effect on Black students is clear and harmful. Individual students should do all they can to express their horror, from attending rallies like Saturday's to communicating their support individually to Third World and minority students...
University officials cannot be held responsible for the occurrence of racist incidents; they are undoubtedly as horrified as anyone. But they can and should do more to counteract the damaging fears such incidents provoke. If the University were more enthusiastic, more cooperative, and more speedy in its development of a Third World Center; if President Bok and other leaders denounced the Klitgaard report, which insensitively cast doubt on Black students' academic abilities; if College administrators moved faster to implement the recommendations of last year's race relations report; and if Harvard's leaders made it clear that student pressure...