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...What we tried to do last year was to educate people about why this is a hurtful symbol," Nelson says. "It was educative in the sense that you can't assume that all student know [what the flag means to Blacks], and it was activist in trying to get the administration to do something,...which failed...
What impressed Nelson's admirers during the flag controversy was that she was able simultaneously to put pressure on the administration, and educate students, and to maintain communications between administrators and student groups...
...During the flag debate..Mecca was able to speak up for group without breaking up the communication," Striedter says. Streidter awarded Nelson a Master's Citation at the Cabot senior dinner in recognition of her efforts to improve race relations during the flag debate and throughout her time at Harvard...
...Spade Kicks" and Confederate flag controversies have convinced Nelson that the University needs to regulate hate speech to prevent increasingly frequent racial harassment. She argues that University policy restrictingracial harassment should allow the administrationto limit certain speech that is hurtful tostudents...
...Nelson's academic work has in many waysmirrored her activism. She began as a Governmentconcentrator, moved into History, and Literature,and this year transferred into the Afro-AmericanStudies Department where, she says, "everythinghas come together." A tutorial with Phillip BrianHarper, assistant professor of English andAmerican literature and language and Afro-Americanstudies, a course with visiting Professor PatriciaJ. Williams, and a course with visiting LecturerSpike Lee have convinced Nelson that sheeventually wants to go to graduate school...