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...Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal,” the deployment of this term harms rather than protects the African American community. While Kennedy succeeds in illustrating the difficulties that exist when trying to apply the title of sellout, he fails to adequately present that loaded term??s consequences. In the end, Kennedy’s insistence on complicating the circumstances under which we can use “sellout” raises more questions than he provides answers to.In “Sellout,” Kennedy sets out to describe the various ways in which African...
...absurd methods for naming a department. Ask the United States government, which could not have done worse its current moniker for our consolidated domestic security bureaucracy: the “Department of Homeland Security.”“Homeland Security” is a chilling and artless term??both for its linguistic similarity to the terminology of totalitarianism, and for the inaccurate and unhealthy implication that America is a “homeland.” And the term??s ties to an unfortunate set of policies further magnify its natural lack of grace...
Under most circumstances, offering choices to students is a good thing. But the options suggested by The Crimson Staff for the new “J-term?? are ill-advised. By offering classes—whether or not they will count for transcript credit—Harvard will incentivize students’ returning after less than two weeks of break. The same students who already feel guilty for not studying during the holidays—even with 11 days of post-Christmas reading period on the horizon—will feel plenty of pressure not to take...
...continuing battle against depression and stress, Harvard’s student wellness organizations are teaming up to reach undergraduates—particularly freshmen—during this term??s reading period...
...privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. The term applies to all white people.” Conversely, students were told that a “non-racist” is “a non term??created by whites to deny responsibility for systemic racism.” This is not the stuff of cultural cohesion. Rather, the program at the University of Delaware represents the worst mechanisms for building diversity on a college campus: Its methods were to victimize and criminalize, and its effects were to polarize...