Word: bmf
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...particularly struck by this last week, when an incident in the Quad sparked lively discussion on campus. According to reports, the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) responded to complaints of commotion on the Quad’s public lawn during the "ABHW-BMF Challenge," a gathering put on by the Black Men’s Forum (BMF) and the Association of Black Harvard Women (ABHW). HUPD arrived, questioning the students’ presence on the lawn. Some present were asked to show IDs to verify that they were Harvard students. Officers then asked the students to "keep the noise down...
...jump to a conclusion of racism is hasty. Bryan C. Barnhill ’08, President of BMF, wrote a widely forwarded email in which he characterized students who had complained about the noise as having dispositions "motivated by racist attitudes." This assertion is troubling. Just as it would be inappropriate to dismiss the idea that strands of racism could exist at Harvard, it is equally offensive to presume that what happened at the Quad indicates maliciousness toward black students...
...BMF and ABHW have now switched gears to kick start their "I Am Harvard" Campaign, which seeks to promote awareness of what they perceive as a problem of racism on campus. Though we may not all agree with the sentiment that motivated this campaign, we ought to embrace the effort, in order to demonstrate a campus wide commitment to racial progressivism. In this way, we may show that this is, in fact, our Harvard—not the divisive community Counter and his gang would like to invent as a weapon in their hyper-p.c. crusade...
Spearheaded by BMF president Bryan C. Barnhill II ’08, ABHW president Anjelica M. Kelly ’09, and Cabot house resident Katharine E.S. Loncke ’08, the “I Am Harvard” campaign “intends to bring the campus together [through a series of events] to question the conception of what a Harvard student should look like,” said Barnhill...
Prior to Wednesday night, several e-mails sent over the BMF and ABHW open-lists questioned the appropriateness of Primal Scream as a place to raise awareness—although they also stressed the importance of solidarity in the black community...