[1475] in Discussion of MIT-community interests

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Re: MIT, computers and ethical values.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Katherine H. Allen)
Mon Oct 6 13:32:19 2003

Date:         Mon, 6 Oct 2003 12:50:21 -0400
From:         "Katherine H. Allen" <katallen@MIT.EDU>
To:           MIT-Talk@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To:  <5.2.1.1.2.20031006105944.02441c70@hesiod>

> Barnes realized from this experience that racism has no intellectual
> boundaries, whether it comes "from a sharecropper's son or a person
> with perfect scores on his Scholastic Aptitude Tests."

It upsets me to see that Barnes does not appear to believe that
sharecropper's sons can have perfect SAT scores...

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Katherine H. Allen (Kat)                         katallen@mit.edu
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