[216] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: racism at Penn State
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Zhelinrentice L Scott)
Fri Apr 27 01:42:22 2001
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 27 Apr 2001 00:39:24 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 01:41:23 -0400
From: Zhelinrentice L Scott <zlscott@MIT.EDU>
Dear Beland,
I sent those newspaper links to point out what is going on at other
universities. I did that because Stanford is a peer institution to MIT.
Like the tenure issue at Northeastern, Stanford's hate crimes tell me
that MIT is not above, beyond, or past the possiblity of creating a
hostile environment towards minorities, women, or homosexuals.
I believe that racism is alive and well at MIT, and I think that
discussing ways to deal with racism at MIT has everything to do
with MIT.
Like I said before, groups like the extropians have popped up
here at MIT. When groups like that pop up who are hostile towards
minorities that makes me, a woman of African American descent, very
uncomfortable.
This issue has EVERYTHING to do with student life at MIT,
and I would appreciate it if you would be a little more sensitive
to that fact.
In hope,
Zhe Scott
