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...director of the Harvard Foundation, compared the incident to Apartheid South Africa. Harvard, according to Counter, is "clearly a racist community, in which police are allowed to use South African apartheid techniques to harass our students." Perhaps Counter needs a history refresher: Apartheid refers to the horrendous system of racial segregation in which black South Africans were denied any social influence and forced to live in inadequate housing with inferior access to education and medicine. I fail to see the parallel here...
...also unclear what exactly Counter’s organization does. The Harvard Foundation’s supposed commitment to promoting intercultural and racial understanding did not stop it from pulling sponsorship of a 2006 panel featuring Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the former Dutch parliamentarian and human rights activist whose 2004 film, "Submission," detailing mistreatment of Muslim women in the Netherlands, triggered the murder of its director, Theo Van Gogh. Despite the fact that Hirsi Ali was set to appear with several other panelists, including Ahmed Mansour, a leading scholar and defender of Islam, many students, including members of the Harvard Islamic...
...Harvard subconsciously racist?” Without a doubt, most Harvard students, if asked, would firmly deny that 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...
...should all be angry about this. Just as issues of race do not solely affect one group, they cannot be solved by one group alone. While it is not necessarily the spiteful intent of a majority of individuals to inflict racial inequalities on people of color, the structure of a society which is heir to a legacy of racial oppression disseminates these negative attitudes throughout our culture...
What he has done is divide America into black and white, castigate Obama for “acting white,” and hope that we can still move towards a respectful racial pluralism in this country. That Obama has been embraced many millions of every color does not seem to have changed Professor West’s mind. In West’s world, whites and blacks in America are still, even today, fundamentally determined to war. The tragedy, then, of West’s racial determinism is that it contributes to the racial tensions he ostensible wishes...