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...called Harvard students who use knowledge for their own advancement "stupid" and "backward." He said that Black students should remember that they would not be at Harvard today if Black civil rights leaders of the sixties had not fought for racial equality...
...would all be laughable were it not so stupid, and one has to wonder what Bishop Tutu must think of such petty one-upsmanship. It seems clear that the issue centers around a relatively simple and unimportant miscommunication regarding the scheduling of a prominent visitor, without intentional snubs from either side. Yet the incident is unfortunate nonetheless, for it demonstrates a painful insensitivity among Harvard officials on at least two counts...
...attend a private school in Chicago, while he supported himself. A Columbia recruiter convinced him to apply to Eastern colleges. He had never heard of Harvard before. In his small town of Parker, "counselors discourage you from applying to college," he says, "and Anglos tell you you're stupid." He adds that the Klu Klux Klan counts 200 members in his town. Now, whites at home hate him even more, because no one in town has ever been to Harvard, he says. And stereotypes stick: he is called "Mr. Harvard Accent...
...Washington." The American Foreign Service Association issued a statement saying: "Such an endorsement demonstrates a regrettable failure to grasp that to be effective, an ambassador must represent the entire nation, not just one segment." At the State Department, the prevailing sentiment was summed up by a senior official: " 'Stupid' and 'tacky' are the operative words...
...thought etiquette was dead," says Martin. "Even the word was a joke. I thought I was just writing for a bunch of old cranks like myself, but then I started getting floods of mail from young people. These were the people who were supposed to think etiquette was stupid and ludicrous, and they were all writing me and asking me questions. I found out that these people realized that they had been lied to by their parents...