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...symposium went on but, it was marked byheated exchanges between audience members and by awalkout staged by 40 students after one speakerused the word "Negro" 15 times and called sexualliberation the primary cause of the break down ofsome Black families...
...title of the symposium was not changed...
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...
Condemnations by the Black students Association, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 and Assistant Dean for Race Relations and Minority Affairs Hilda Hernandez-Gravelle convinced Peninsula to remove the posters and change the symposium's title. At least the conservative group is now aware of their offensive and insensitive action...
Peninsula Council member Chris Vergonis '92 explained "the speakers used the word 'Negro' to place the symposium in its historical context." But historical context to some is racist and offensive to others...