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Before one attacks Counter and the Harvard Foundation, and attempts to give us a lesson on South African apartheid (did Caldwell take a course in South African history like some of us have, or did she simply visit wikipedia and feel it was time to drop some knowledge?), I ask that she review her history, not only of racism on this campus and throughout the world, but on the contributions of S. Allen Counter—hopefully then, she and all of us will realize why this article, despite its efforts to engage the racial issue on campus, was completely...
...Alumni Network list serve under the heading, “the more things change, the more they remain the same.”A number of students and their parents have stated to me that policemen demanding identification cards from African-American students is reminiscent of the South African apartheid era, when blacks were routinely forced to show their ID cards to white police when they were thought to be “out of place.” Many of our Harvard Police are well-trained and friendly professionals who are qualified to work in an academic community with...
...While the comparison of HUPD tactics to racialized policing during Apartheid may be imperfect, the metaphor is apt: students who are routinely subject to identification checks regard their treatment on the Quad lawn as a harsh reminder that, by some, they are not viewed as being part of this community. In fact, in the wake of the incident many black alumni have cited similar trends of excessive scrutiny from HUPD, resident tutors, and their peers. Even faculty members have been subject to similar treatment because of their race. The two aforementioned editorials completely disregarded—and therefore trivialized?...
Dark glasses and motorcycles do not an apartheid make...
...middle of Reading Period is absolutely not commensurate to policies under which blacks and whites were not allowed to marry one another, not even have interracial sexual relations. Even if, as Counter asserts, Harvard is a “racist community,” it is not apartheid South Africa. The good doctor is grasping, indeed, and not for the first time...