Word: racists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Black students of the late 1960s and early 1970s hotly disputed any link between race and grades. "That's an old racist argument," said A'Lelia Bundles '74, an ABC News producer in Washington. "This is the 'the neighborhood goes to the dogs when you let Blacks in' argument...
...Every worker knows what a torture chamber [the Harvard Union] is to work in. It's a racist atmosphere." said Childs, who called Hicks "one of our most militant and aggressive stewards...
After all, they reason, the racism they hear about may be just a figment of minority students' imagination. Regardless of the facts in any particular case, some people find it much easier to believe that Black sorority women were oversensitive than to believe that a white man made racist remarks...
...shouted at Black sorority women when they made noise outside his dorm one January evening. Among the students who yelled from the dorm that night, Jacobowitz was the only one who admitted he had called to the women. His cry--"Shut up, you water buffalo"--was construed as a racist statement, and he faced an administrative trial on racial harassment charges, brought up by the sorority members and the university. At the eleventh hour, the women dropped their charges against him, and Penn followed suit...
...think it's a racist, anti-union firing and we're going to add pressure to Harvard to deal with the case," Childs said...