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...with non-members. “It’s a lot easier to talk with people who can relate to your type of experience. That’s a way of dealing with it, but also a way of moving beyond it,” says Charles J. Hamilton III ’07, the president of the Black Men’s Forum...
Although these groups are for the greater part ethnically homogeneous, many do boast the odd member who is not of the predominant race. “In my time, [the BMF] hasn’t been limited to black men,” says Hamilton, “Our social chair is Latino. It’s very much about where your heart is and where your mind is. And how you’re viewed and judged by your peers.” April D. Youpee-Roll ’08, president of Native Americans at Harvard College, says...
...Hamilton believes Harvard students can straddle the border between being involved in a racial community and taking part in other activities. “People feel they have to make a choice: You can either be a part of the black community, or you can do something else, but you can’t do them both. I don’t think that was anyone’s deliberate impression to give people. Now that that is being realized, I think greater efforts are being put forth, within the greater Harvard community, to really show people the opportunities...
...that. “I think that the perception is that because these organizations and these communities exist, that means there’s segregation, whether that’s on the university’s part, or whether it’s self-segregation,” says Hamilton. “You absolutely have to have those communities. Whether you decide it’s right or wrong, the communities will still exist, and the organizations will still exist. So in my mind, that’s not even a debate worth having. The ultimate goal...
...first, and bitterest, campaigns against a President's course in wartime was mounted by the Federalist Party. The Federalists, followers of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and John Adams, had accomplished great things during the 1790s. But they suffered from the taint of litism and in the election of 1800 lost the White House and Congress to their enemies, the Republicans (ancestors of today's Democrats). Federalism shrank to a regional bloc based in New England...