[lentulusgracchus]

Concurring ping and bump.

For a Harvard professor to be involving himself in this kind of shakedown lends a little class to it, but it's still a shakedown and a guilt con.

Businessmen are now reaping the harvest of their earlier cowardice in the face of boycott threats. They proved then that businessmen can be made to pay up for political peace. The market for that will take everything they give it.

[ladyjane]

For a Harvard professor to be involving himself in this kind of shakedown lends a little class to it, but it's still a shakedown and a guilt con.

He lends no class. In his spare time he calls up landlords to find out if an apartment is still available. Then he shows up, with a witness, to see if it is still available to a black person.