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...nature of the incident is to open oneself up to accusations of being a racist. Worse still, administrators whose job it is to promote campus dialogue are suppressing open discussion by rushing to the same conclusions. S. Allen Counter, longtime director of the Harvard Foundation, compared the incident to Apartheid South Africa. Harvard, according to Counter, is "clearly a racist community, in which police are allowed to use South African apartheid techniques to harass our students." Perhaps Counter needs a history refresher: Apartheid refers to the horrendous system of racial segregation in which black South Africans were denied any social...
...This is an important step to take in what is clearly a racist community, in which police are allowed to use South African apartheid techniques to harass our students,” Counter told The Crimson. “If there had been 60 white students on the lawn, would police ride up on motorcycles with dark shades to make them show their...
...This is an important step to take in what is clearly a racist community, in which police are allowed to use South African apartheid techniques to harass our students.” Counter said. “If there had been 60 white students on the lawn, would police ride up on motorcycles with dark shades to make them show their...
...wasn’t allowed to speak about apartheid at cocktail parties in South Africa,” she said at a press conference after her award ceremony. Unwilling to compromise and join the Foreign Service, Schoonmaker moved to New York and answered an ad for an assistant film editor, chiefly due to her childhood love of film...
...time and again that he is prepared to destroy the country rather than give up power. South Africa, the big brother of the region, is the key to change. But President Thabo Mbeki has been afraid to touch Mugabe, who is still seen as a hero of the anti-apartheid struggle in southern Africa. Among the poor and landless in South Africa, Mugabe's seizure of white farms went down well. Afraid of lighting a fire in his own country, Mbeki sits on his hands and will take a proactive role only if Zimbabwe collapses into civil...