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...group of undergraduates has claimed responsibility for altering a Harvard University Police Department poster of a burglary suspect, saying that they did so to protest racism...
...created the parody to illuminate the racist implications of the police's hurtfully ambiguous poster featuring a subject whose only distinguishing details were absurdly broad," the group, which calls itself Harvard Undergraduates Pointing out Discrimination, wrote in an open letter to Harvard Police Chief Paul E. Johnson...
...Harvard police distributed the original version of the suspect poster in response to a string of recent burglaries at Matthews Hall. Within a week, an altered version of the poster appeared across campus, in which the drawing of the suspect was replaced by a caricature of a black male and the words "Afro-American" were added to the suspect's description. All the other information was the same...
...brief telephone interview yesterday, Chief Johnson defended the original poster, denied that it was racist and dismissed the group's letter as "kind of stupid...
...This fact is important because racism exists in many insidious sites, from the Police poster reinscribing the myth of the criminal black male to common dictionary representations of ethnicity (see also the illustrations for 'chopsticks,' 'turban' and 'mortarboard' if you are ready to be offended)," the letter said...