[368] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: ATO Incident
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Cornell)
Mon Apr 30 23:27:46 2001
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Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 23:27:38 -0400
To: Christopher Jones <wrjjones@MIT.EDU>, mit-talk@MIT.EDU
From: Chris Cornell <cornellc@MIT.EDU>
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> That said, some would argue that racism is a widespread problem. Not that
>MIT is worse than the rest of the nation, but on par with the nation is not
>where we want to be. I think the administration would be remiss in not
>taking a look at the issue of race at MIT.
Having been here for 2 years, with black, white, asian, indian, jewish,
female, nerdy,
and "jock" friends, and myself being gay, I have never
seen/heard/experienced even
CLOSE to "national par" racism or prejudice. That comment seems totally
unfounded
within the bounds of everyday MIT life. I would say that, if anything,
such thinking is
based on high profile yet infrequent mishaps that are totally unrelated to
the "sensitivity and awareness of MIT campus" on the whole.
Unless there's some big secret hall of bigotry in the infinite that I've
been missing this
whole time, I'm going to assume that was a slip of the tongue in an attempt
to make a
different argument, that being perhaps perhaps the administration should
"look at the issue
of race", in which case I would, personally, separate the point from
hyperbole.
cc
