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"Well, here we are; you look
ing at me, me looking at you."
So spoke Sidney Poitier at
the beginning of his lecture in
Dana Auditorium on Dec. 2,
right before complimenting
the entirety of the packed
house on their good looks and
moral character.
"Now how's that for sucking
up to 1,200 people?" said
Poitier.
Guilford theatre professor
Jack Zerbe introduced him as,
"a man of great charm, and
Poiter, actor for over 50
years and 1963 winner of the
Oscar for Best Actor, came to
speak about what the pro
gram called "The Oneness of
the Human Family."
"Snap judgments too often
obscure how much we don't
know about each other," said
Poitier.
He then elucidated his point
by giving 14 vignettes, what
he called "snapshots" about
his life.
In snapshot one Poitier
spoke about his mother
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Evelyn and his father Reggie,
tomato farmers from Cat
Island in the Bahamas. He
spoke about how his mother
wouldn't give up on him and
even went to see a soothsay
er when he was born two
months premature.
"My favorite part of the
evening was listening to him
talk about when he was a
kid," said Senior Laura
Myerchin. "He's graceful,
charming, and a very elo
quent speaker."
Throughout the evening,
Poiter continued to stress the
integrity and values his par
ents instilled in him. From
discussing his mother's
"whap-whap method" of
teaching, to the day his father
decided that Sidney should
go to America at the age of
15, Poitier spoke of them with
respect and care.
"There were lessons to be
learned from everything they
said and did," he said.
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Poiter did not hesitate to dis
cuss some of his less proud
moments; for instance, he
described the first time he got
drunk, and the time he was
arrested at age twelve.
"I believe that everything, all
of my experiences in the
aggregate, good ones, bad
ones, all of them, are what
brought me to this spot on
which I stand," he said.
The audience remained
silent as Poitier shared his
experience of the segregated
South and the race riots in
Harlem.
He made it a point to thank
the police officer who intro
duced him to the Catholic
nuns who cared for him "with
genuine love and affection,"
during the winter of 1943.
Poitier spoke of how he
decided to become an actor
after having been rejected by
a man who told him to "get out
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of sexism and
racism
Dylan Grayson
Staff Writer
"There's too much feeling
about race and not enough
thinking about racial privilege
and power structures," said
Peggy Mcintosh, Associate
Director of the Wellesley
College Center for Research
on Women, early in her
speech Nov. 17 in Dana
Auditorium.
Judy Harvey, Director of
Community Learning and
Bonner Scholars said, "I knew
that much of [Mcintosh's]
work has been done around
the issue of gender bias and I
thought she might help the
Guilford community think
about the intersection of sex
ism and racism as well as
deepen our understanding of
white privilege, an important
concept in working from an
anti-racist analysis.
"Her presentation was the
final and fifth anti-racism
forum for the fall semester
which were all planned to help
the Guilford community con
tinue to think and talk about
racism from an anti-racist per
spective."
Mcintosh said that when she
first began noticing white priv
ilege, one of Virginia Woolfs
writings inspired her to
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