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...they are racist or that they employ racial profiling in their everyday lives. Yet this difficult and loaded question has emerged from the woodwork and has been asked, debated over e-mail, and discussed over dinner ever since Saturday. We write, of course, of the incident in which several Quad residents called the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) to check whether students playing on the Quad were in fact Harvard students and permitted to be there. It turned out that they were Harvard students who had explicit permission to use the space—and specifically members of the Black...
...campaign is a response to an incident on the Quad lawn that occurred on Saturday during an event organized by the Black Men’s Forum (BMF) and the Association of Black Harvard Women (ABHW). After a string of e-mails sent over the Cabot open-list that questioned whether the participants were Harvard students, one student called University police...
That is why the expectations surrounding racism should be no different for any person—college-educated or high school dropout, rich or poor, Quad or river—than they are for anyone else. For news outlets, either explicitly or implicitly, to hold a certain sect of people to a higher standard than another gives some people more license than others to act unjustly...
...Wednesday night, after stressing that the “Quad incident” was only an indicator of deeper race-relations problems, Barnhill called on those present to share tales of personal encounters with racism at Harvard. In response, several male black students told stories of not being able hail a cab, or being asked to show their ID cards by officers despite wearing Harvard sweatshirts. After each tale, the crowd chanted “I Am Harvard” as an affirmation of their rightful presence at the University...
...answer is clear: It’s because we are racist. At least, we’re as racist as everyone else is. Subconsciously or otherwise, it explains why a collection of students at a Quad event last weekend involving two of Harvard’s most prominent black student organizations could be confused with campus trespassers. It explains why a recent Cinco de Mayo party at the University of Delaware had a “South of the Border” theme, featuring members of a predominantly white honor fraternity poking some highly-offensive fun at Latinos everywhere...