Word: apartness
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...thinking that Ellison’s Invisible Man doesn’t capture the problem. I’m thinking sometimes, blacks in America are the subject of hypervisibility. Those with the best of intentions want to tell us apart but can’t. Some people just aren’t used to distinguishing black people. There’s no formal segregation in America, but every suburb’s composition doesn’t reflect these legal updates. Through no fault of your own, Harvard may be your first real brush with blackness. And they say when...
...suppose familiarity is really the only way to learn. I went to an elementary school with sizable chunks of black, white, Hispanic and Asian students, which is rare, so maybe it made me think beyond skin to tell people apart. And when I first meet somebody, I do recognize them by non-facial features—braids, ears, chains, weight. I’ve made mistakes. Only through knowing people and seeing them repeatedly does the mind’s memory get more nuanced. It takes a while to become more than your primary distinguishing features, and to someone...
Your funding comes from various ministries, and individual donors. What about businesses? They are conspicuously absent. Apart from McDonald's - which donated over 3150,000 to us after one of its restaurants was bombed in Brittany - no private business has accepted our appeals for funds. Not even big companies whose property, employees, and customers have been victimized by terrorism. After Sept. 11, companies from the U.S. and Europe - including most airlines - flocked to us for insight on the legal, medical, and insurance experience and partners we've had over time. We were very popular, right up until we asked...
...replied. “That’s why I don’t go to rallies.” Most Harvard students are embarrassed by the trappings of demonstrations and the extremists who frequent them. We practice critical thinking all day. By night, we write response papers ripping apart political theories and literary masterpieces. The earnest “Hey hey, ho ho, war in Iraq must go” of the kids in front of the Science Center offends our critical sensibilities. We blush, cringe, smirk and flee to the safety of the library, even when we support...
Earlier this month Oluseyi A. Fayanju ’05, the 1996 National Geography Bee champion, was crowned arm-wrestling champion in a brutal FM-sponsored competition among Harvard’s finest game show, spelling bee and geography bee contestants. One of the fringe benefits of Bee stardom (apart from national TV and FM appearances) is that Fayanju’s cartographic expertise makes for a mean party trick...