Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Interesting Quote: Elizabeth Gates


For Morehouse to turn against the men that have chosen to hand over their hard-earned scholarships, loans, or family savings is unacceptable. To tell a student that his sense of self is only as good as his ability to conform is to reduce this student, and Morehouse at large, to the exact consciousness it fought so hard to defeat. To trivialize the decades of work that the institution and its dutiful student body has labored so hard to establish is to argue that Morehouse is no longer a safe place for all black male intellectuals, but rather only open to those who can tie a Windsor knot and clasp cufflinks to suit jackets. And to promote the idea that to dress the part is as important as the standard of education is to mock the legacy of empowerment Morehouse has held fast to for so many decades.

Elizabeth speaks out about the Morehouse dress code. She is a writer for The Daily Beast and daughter of Henry Louis Gates Jr., a professor at Harvard.


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1 comment:

Daddy Squeeze Me! said...

AND I DEFINITELY AGREE! WERQ ELIZABETH!

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