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...recent controversy surrounding the “heteronormative” speech by Pinkett Smith at this year’s Cultural Rhythms indicates once again that the BGLTSA is more dedicated to pointless rhetoric than substantive change. But more than that, the BGLTSA has disingenuously dragged Pinkett Smith??who talked about the roles men and women can play in our evolving society—into their battle for further inclusion within the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations...
...several members of student groups protested the application on the grounds that the BGLTSA promotes a deviant lifestyle. While it is deplorable that groups aimed at the value of diversity would choose to criticize the BGLTSA in this way, it is similarly deplorable that the BGLTSA has hijacked Pinkett Smith??s speech to further its own skewed agenda...
...BGLTSA release acknowledged that the Foundation was not responsible for Pinkett Smith??s comments. But the Foundation has pledged to “take responsibility to inform future speakers that they will be speaking to an audience diverse in race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, gender and class,” according to the release...
BGLTSA Co-Chair Jordan B. Woods ’06 said that, while many BGLTSA members thought Pinkett Smith??s speech was “motivational,” some were insulted because they thought she narrowly defined the roles of men and women in relationships...
Ofole U. “Fofie” Mgbako ’08, a performer in the Cultural Rhythms show who watched Pinkett Smith??s speech, said he thought the speech was “insightful...