Word: racists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Coll stepped on the base of the statue to speak to the tweeded parents and the prospective freshmen. "Folks, Harvard really is a great school. You have a tremendous city here, filled with arts and culture, all at your fingertips. But Boston is also recognized as the most racist city in America, and poverty exists here rivaling any in the nation." The parents recoiled and put their arms around their children. "These students here are about to go out to a housing project across the river to tutor 12-year-olds who read like six-year-olds should," Coll continued...
...Sweden because of lack of training and his bizarre subject matter. When I was informed of the plans for this presentation by Mr. Harkensson, I strongly protested the showing of his films on the grounds that authorities consider them to be totally devoid of scholarly merit. Moreover, they are racist and violate every code of moral decency. Mr. Harkensson stated he "had been officially invited to present these films to members of the Harvard community by the Peabody Museum and biologist George Wald." I later shared my concerns about this subject with several of my colleagues...
George Wald, Higgins professor of Biology Emeritus and a person who invited Harkensson to show the film, said Monday he is "amazed at Allen Counter," adding he does not believe the film was racist...
...this year's Hasty Pudding Show, "A Little Knife Music," one of the actors is cast in the role of a Chinese character named Edgar Foo Yung. The character portrayed is so pitifully predictable, it is everything one would expect of a racist caricature. Complete with the requisite trailing pigtail, pidgin English, and tiny stature, he bows and clasps his hands together, preeminently laughable in all his jerky, awkward mannerisms. He is presented as a slimy little man who evilly lusts after the blond heroine...
Chinese students should follow suit. Chinese are not "fair game" for racial jokes just because other racial groups have protested; racist humor is unacceptable on all fronts. The objection that all this is in good fun is as vapid here as it was in the case of the Lampoon. Where racism is present, nothing is ever in "good fun." A theatrical production should not stoop to such a low level just to elicit a nervous laugh or two. Elizabeth T. Partridge...