NY Times Letters to the Editor:
As an African-American and a recent Harvard graduate, I have found that my day-to-day life
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.
Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.
The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.
How can republicans represent us when they don’t trust women?
Peak wingnut was a lie.
Let’s not be the monsters we hate.
“Cheese and Kraken paired together for the appetizer trial.”
I really should read my own blog.
American History and Black History Cannot Be Separated
Good lord, these people are nuts.
Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.
This fight is for everything.
JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?
Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.
They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.
And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.
Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.
Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.
The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.
We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.
A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.
They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.
Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.
But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.
tom scott
While I’m in general agreement with Antoinette that assistance should be economially based rather that racially based I think what she is responding to is this.
“While about 8 percent, or about 530, of Harvard’s undergraduates were black, Lani Guinier, a Harvard law professor, and Henry Louis Gates Jr., the chairman of Harvard’s African and African-American studies department, pointed out that the majority of them
Ralph Gizzip
Or to paraphrase Al Sharpton, “She may be my color but she ain’t my kind.”
old maltese
‘A rise in the number …, while not ignoring …’
Dear Antoinette:
Harvard has X number of places available. If you increase acceptances from Group A (slave-descendant African-Americans), you decrease acceptances from Group B (all others, including native Africans).
You should have learned that at Harvard.
Cheers.
Steverino
Old Maltese, you need to read Ms. Nwandu’s letter more carefully. Her point is that if the university were to direct Affirmative Action toward the economically disadvantaged, rather than by skin color, it would automatically benefit African-Americans while still keeping the spirit of Affirmative Action: to help those who need it most.