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...writting in response to students' request for clear statements from members of the administration regarding the language used in Peninsula's advertisement of an event they first called "Spade Kicks: the Negro as a Paradigm of Sexual Liberation...
...should be known to everyone that the content of the flyer, specifically the use of the words "spade" and "Negro," are regarded as highly offensive and unacceptable to members of the Black community, the general Harvard-Radcliffe community and the Office of Race Relations and Minority Affairs...
...discussion became heated as a number ofstudents criticized Cabot administrators andtutors for failing to react sufficiently toincidents such as the "Spade Kicks" poster put uplast month by Peninsula staffers toadvertise a speaking event and a Confederate flaghung last year by one house resident...
...flyer, which was posted in Cabot and MatherHouse two weeks ago, advertised a symposium heldlast Wednesday entitled "Spade Kicks: A symposiumon Modernity and the Negro as a Paradigm of SexualLiberation." The flyer, which showed a picture ofa Black woman performing a striptease for a whiteaudience, was voluntary removed by magazinemembers after some students raised objections...
SIMILARLY, Peninsula's outrageous poster publicizing a talk entitled "Spade Kicks: a Symposium on Modernity and the Negro as a Paradigm of sexual Liberation" did nothing to promote dialogue, and only stirred intergroup disputes. The racial slurs and allusions to negative stereotypes of Black sexuality--including the poster's image of a Black woman performing a strip before a white audience--are hurtful and insensitive...