[lbo-talk] who made Gates #1?

[shag carpet bomb]

At 08:18 PM 7/27/2009, Dennis Claxton wrote:
>At 05:08 PM 7/27/2009, Chuck Grimes wrote:
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>>And there is a whole West Coast v. East Coast thing, as well as Berkeley
>>v. Harvard. This dust-up is pretty interesting all the way around.
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>Reed got that in there too:
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>"What is it with this post-race Harvard elite? I got to see Dick Gregory 
>and Mort Sahl perform in San Francisco the other night, the last of the 
>great sixties comedians. During his routine, Gregory said that he's 
>sending his grand kids to black historical colleges because even though he 
>lives near Harvard and can afford to send them there, he wouldn't "send 
>his dog to Harvard." Maybe he is on to something."

that's a status distinction Lawrence Otis Graham draws in Our Kind of 
People. Among the Jack and Jill crowd, it's usually considered bad form to 
send your kids to anything but an HBC. Graham, himself, went to Harvard, 
IIRC, so he wrote that section from his direct experience with the dilemma.

shag