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There are a lot of lessons to be learned from my experience with race. First of all, I am not alone. A lot of white people care about racial barriers, and would willingly do something if they saw avenues for change...
...said to myself, ‘Race is not going to be an issue in this case,’” Mesereau said. “I looked at it purely in terms of what would help him.” Mesereau compared his treatment of racial issues in the Jackson case with another case he took, which involved a black city councillor from Compton, Calif. who was prosecuted following a corruption sting. He used racial arguments in that case, he said, because the evidence strongly indicated that race played a major role in the situation. He also...
Still, that didn’t prevent people from trying to categorize me. More at Harvard than anywhere else, people would explicitly ask me about my racial background. I would say that I was from Guatemala, and the person would tag me as Hispanic, even going so far to imagine a fictitious accent I don’t have. I took it as a compliment—better than being called a “gringo,” as I am in Guatemala...
...witnessed a lot of my white peers reacting to that same frustration in many different ways. Some questioned the legitimacy of ethnic and cultural student groups; others formed identities as distant from racial issues as possible...
Most importantly, however, is that everyone—not just those in the minority—needs to come to terms with the racial lines that define social interaction at Harvard. I think the place to start is to make open and honest discourse a part of our identities from the beginning. It’s not always easy to think and talk about race, and I don’t blame the people who choose to avoid the topic. But talking about race is our responsibility in an age of diversity; it cannot be avoided...