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...disgusted and outraged by the Peninsula's advertisement and sponsorship of an event entitled: "Spade Kicks: A Symposium on Modernity and the Negro as a Paradigm of Sexual Liberation." The terms "spade" and "Negro" used to identify African-Americans have angered and offended the Black community. "Spade" is an epithet similar to "nigger" in its derogatory denotation of African-Americans. Likewise, while the term "Negro" was historically used to describe African-Americans until the 1960s, its usage without qualification is now considered unacceptable and offensive. Furthermore, the title's assertion of the "Negro as a Paradigm of Sexual Liberation" invokes...
Equally offensive was the advertisement for the "symposium" which features a photograph of what appears to be a light-skinned Black woman doing a strip-tease in front of a white audience while a Black male saxophonist played in the background. The photograph is framed by the title and the following quotation from Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road,"...just old-fashioned spade kicks. What other kicks are there?" The image generated by the picture is one of Blacks as entertainment for whites. This image is intensified by the use of the word "paradigm" in the title and Kerouac...
What are the conditions that make this "symposium" and its publicity possible on a campus that ostensibly wishes to foster an environment free of racial harassment? In our opinion, it is the University's refusal to define and enforce restrictions on hate speech. Thus, groups like Peninsula are able to mask racism under the guise and protection of free speech. A lack of any policy regarding hate speech makes us wonder just what the limits of hate speech are (if any exists) and who must be offended in order for such limits to be enforced. We do not believe that...
...Peninsula posted raciallyoffensive flyers advertising a symposium on sexualliberation and Black families [see relatedstory]. BSA said the College permits themagazine to "mask racism under the guise andprotection of free speech...
...also condemned the Peninsula forflyers" which advertised a lecture entitled "SpadeKicks: A Symposium on Modernity and the Negro as aParadigm of Sexual Liberation...