Apartheid. USA 1988

January 11, 1987:

Trustee Henrietta Holsman of Wellesley College in suburban Boston, Massachusetts, addressed the student body in which she claimed that blacks preferred pushing drugs to working in a factory. Miss Holsman who graduated from Wellesley in 1970, runs a manufacturing concern in Los Angeles. She had also found Hispanic workers to be lazy, white workers resentful of having to work with machines, and Asians, while very productive, likely to move on to professional and management jobs. She said, seventy percent of her workers were members of minority groups. Her remarks precipitated an emotional debate on this bucolic campus already grappling with charges of racial insensitivity. There are only 2 blacks among the 124 tenured professors at Wellesley. Of the 1 250 students, 133 are black, 6 percent more than five years ago. Last fall, 50 students were arrested protesting Wellesley's ownership of stock in companies that do business in South Africa. Their effort to pressure the trustees to vote for divestment failed. Trustees voting 17 to 14 rejected the move.^19.

19. The New York Times, from a report by Fox Butterfield