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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...
...their "I Am Harvard" Campaign, which seeks to promote awareness of what they perceive as a problem of racism on campus. Though we may not all agree with the sentiment that motivated this campaign, we ought to embrace the effort, in order to demonstrate a campus wide commitment to racial progressivism. In this way, we may show that this is, in fact, our Harvard—not the divisive community Counter and his gang would like to invent as a weapon in their hyper-p.c. crusade...
...April 14, 1992 letter to The Crimson, Counter posited that criticisms of the Harvard Foundation in an investigative series on race relations reflected “The Crimson’s racial agenda.” This newspaper’s complaints that the Foundation had actively fuelled tension between Blacks and Jews at Harvard were written, Counter fumed, by “Crimson writers active in Hillel...
...Counter wrote on this page that, “most racial conflicts are based on ignorance, arrogance and victimization. We must all seek to rise above these failings to bring about tolerance, understanding and racial sensitivity among our fellow men and women in the Harvard community and the world at large...