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Editor's Note: The Crimson does not usually respond to letters to the editors. However, yesterday's letter from S. Allen Counter and Natosha O. Reid '93 contained what we felt were extraordinary charges against this paper that demanded a response...
Yesterday S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation for Inter-Cultural and Race Relations, and Natosha O. Reid '93, co-chair of the Foundation's Student Advisory Committee, said in a gargantuan letter to The Crimson that our diversity series and the subsequent editorials regarding the Harvard Foundation (actually, there was only one staff editorial) purveyed "misinformation" to our readers about Harvard's diversity and the Foundation. (Muneer I. Ahmad '93, the other co-chair of the Foundation's student board, did not sign the letter...
Counter and Reid attempted to "set the record straight" by defending the Foundation and even offered an explanation for why the series and the editorial "fell short in the areas of accuracy, objectivity and fairness...
...based on ignorance, arrogance and victimization. We must all seek to rise above these failings to bring about tolerance, understanding and racial sensitivity among our fellow men and women in the Harvard community and the world at large. S. Allen Counter Director of the Harvard Foundation Natosha O. Reid '93 Co-chair of the Harvard Foundation Student Advisory Committee
...David Ryan-Harris. "We grew up among a lot of various musical influences, and we use them all." Lyrics in these songs deal with race relations and other social issues that reflect a consciously black sensibility. "A lot of rock is about coming of age," says Living Colour's Reid. "And one thing that's a definite, salient part of a black person's coming-of-age is dealing with racism...