Word: racists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard Crimson, in its issue of March 17, offered an apology to the Third World community in which, essentially, it refused to apologize. While acknowledging that one blatantly racist act was a "grave mistake," The Crimson denied any systematic racism on its part. Evidently The Crimson is confident that its members are automatically unaffected by the racism which so thoroughly infects American society simply because they desire not to be racist. The Crimson is apparently confusing opposition to the idea of racism with an immunity to racism itself...
...TELLS THE great story of the tense year the entire black population of Montgomery, Alabama boycotted their racist bus system. Saintlike in their patience and non-violence. E.D. Nixon, Martin Luther King, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and isolated Blacks of Montgomery waited for the wisdom of the Supreme Court...
...blatant case of libel. Two innocent people were pictured as prison inmates with no explanation whatsoever. Secondly, we must ask why, in an article that did not deal with racial issues in prison, were two Black men picked to represent prison. Whether they admit or not, this choice is racist because, to The Crimson, the archetypal prisoner is a Black person. Furthermore, their subsequent trivialization of our anger added insult to injury. We were accused once again of "oversensitivity" and were asked to write if off as an unintentional error...
...root of this problem is the refusal of "liberal" whites to admit that they are racist. The institution of racism is too pervasive and engrained in this society for anyone to escape its clutches. The "liberals" must now over-compensate, not only to right past wrongs, but to make sure that "accidents" do not happen in the future. It takes more than a few hours of discussion to become sensitized to the problems of Third World people. These "liberals" must work actively to achieve this understanding. Third World people cannot and will not be constant watchdogs. If "liberal" whites want...
...individual mistakes of a daily newspaper must be viewed in light of its goals and ideals as they emerge from the paper's content, day in and day out. Readers who find The Crimson consistently racist--just as readers who feel the paper is somehow part of the University establishment--must be reading very selectively indeed...