Word: racists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Peter W. Wardle '92, who plays an "evil racist lawyer," says, "I think it's cool because the subject matter is racial...
...accounts for much of a paper's growth and constant striving for improvement. It is in this spirit that I disagree with Crimson editors on a number of subjects, often take issue with Crimson editorial or news policies, and join other Third World students in recognizing and criticizing the racist implications of many items which have appeared in The Crimson. Those whose lack of sensitivity and forethought causes offense are, I think, responsible for educating themselves to understand better the often unintentional nature of oppression and its effect upon other human beings...
...Matisse and Braque were concerned, it was made by savages: the masks and carvings were emblems of ferocity, a thrilling rupture in the smooth herd of French metaphor painting. Seventy years later, for an artist to use African art in that way could only be racist condescension, or airport art, or both. So the problem for an artist who wants to connect his or her sense of black identity with the legacy of modernism, and do so while referring to Africa, is how to back into African imagery by allusion, metaphor, abstraction, any way except by direct quotation...
...deny our own collective racism is to trivialize the roots of bigotry. We have all been raised in a racist society and have incorporated much of its ideals. So many White students on campus are willing to have their one or two Third World friends, and perhaps even a gay one if they are particularly open-minded, but only if this "minority" student approaches them within their context. So very few straight students at this University feel comfortable joining me at a dinner table of known male gay students. A woman who does so is immediately branded...
...segregation that exists at Harvard? What about the Wintrhop House White Table or the Lowell House Rich Table, or the Eliot House anti-Semitic Table, to name just a few? What's wrong with them? The Crimson is absolutely correct in expressing a hope that we carry on anti-racist campaigns to other campus institutions. But we, the White students at Harvard-Radcliffe, must do some individual soul-searching. We all know that racism exists. What are we going to do to change it? Benjamin H. Schatz '81 Co-Chairman of G.O.O.D. [Gays Organized in Opposition to Discrimination...