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Since we have been attempting to explain in our lectures and discussion sessions the complex interplay between the pragmatic activist mainstream sector of African-American intelligentsia on the one hand, and the Black solidarist or Afrocentrist sector on the other hand, my attention was immediately drawn to articles in The Crimson on the Black Students Association's (BSA) unfortunate invitation to Professor Tony Martin, whom I consider a xenophibic Afrocentrist and also to the BSA's proposed Kwanzaa Rituals celebration ("Martin Speaks at BSA Event," news story, Dec. 2, 1994; "Martin Speech Tests Hillel-BSA Relationship," news story...
From my vantage point, these two events reflect a persistent need among many Blacks for cathartic responses or symbolic rebellious responses to racist patterns in American society. It never ceases to fascinate a pragmatic leftist member of the Black American intelligentsia like myself that the appetite for Black solidarist catharsis is still quite strong among competent Black middle-class students (or working-class students soon-to-become bourgeois professionals) at top-level colleges like our fair Harvard College...
...aware, at least two of our course members--Joshua D. Bloodworth '97 and Kristen M. Clarke '97--clearly nurse a strong appetite for Black solidarist catharsis, and especially its high-symbolic and emotive forms represented by Kwanzaa Rituals celebration...
While I've always been pragmatic and ecumenical in my reaction to students like Mr. Bloodworth and Ms. Clarke with their preference for Black-solidarist cathartic activism, I persist in articulating to such Black students here at Harvard College what I believe to be a more viable mode of Black-individual and Black-group metamorphosis in our complex post-Capitalist (e.g., Hi-Tech Capitalist, Global Capitalist, etc.) era. Namely--translate your strong cathartic appetite into a strong outreach-to-Black-poor ethos; into an activist healing-hand value orientation that focuses on the manifold crises of cultural life and societal...
Kilson also said Clarke and BSA Treasurer Joshua D. Bloodworth '97 "clearly nurse a strong appetite for Black-solidarist catharsis and its high-symbolic and emotive forms represented by Kwanzaa Rituals celebration...
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