Why aren t white people interested in racial discussions?
April 9, 2021
I would like to respond to AP’s Deepti Hajela’s article “White People Seem Uninterested in Racial Talk” in the Daytona Beach News Journal’s Sunday, March 28, edition.
I have no problem discussing racial questions in a country that has been literally torn apart racially through years of unrest.
Names that contributed to this ongoing unrest mostly involved police interaction with Blacks, mostly males but the death of one female is listed among them for her accidental death at the hand of a police officer.
For the record, I have been a Liberal, a Democrat, an Independent and a Republ.
A couple of years ago, I gave a speech before a conservative, predominantly white audience. I couldnât help but notice a tall, heavyset Black man, arms folded, standing in the back. From time to time, I would look at him, only to see him frown and shake his head, I assumed disapprovingly, when I made what I considered important points.
After the speech, he came up to me. âI am angry,â he said. âNot at you â at myself. I thought I was well informed. I read the news. I watch the news. I now see Iâve been manipulated by the party that I voted for all my life.â
Ebony M. Smith â24 is a Crimson Editorial editor in Eliot House.
Last week, Harvardâs ties to the Ku Klux Klan in the early 1900s were made public with the reveal of a not-so-shocking yet disturbing photo: Ten Harvard student KKK members donning white robes crowded the John Harvard statue on Class Day 1924. What struck me was not the underlying bigotry and white supremacy that seemed to fit so perfectly with an administration that accepted very few Black students at the time, but the anonymity of those ten white students. To this day, we have no evidence of who those students are.
Meet The Jackie Robinson Of Wall Street
Opener: Courtesy Reginald F. Lewis family Executive photo: Courtesy Reginald F. Lewis family Young Lewis: Courtesy Reginald F. Lewis family George Bush: Courtesy Loida Nicolas Lewis Michael Milken: Courtesy Loida Nicolas Lewis Airplane: Courtesy Loida Nicolas Lewis
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In 1987, a little-known New York lawyer became a master of the universe when he led a takeover of the food conglomerate Beatrice International, creating the first Black-owned billion-dollar company. Robert Smith, Michael Milken, Henry Kravis and others recall the life and legacy of Reginald F. Lewis.
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