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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...
...going to get into a slugging match with these people," Johnson said of the allegations of racism within the Harvard police. "If these people have any concerns with this department, I welcome them to come in and discuss our police procedures...
...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...
...letter continued: "For example, one of our members, a black male undergraduate, has been asked to show his ID card by fellow fearful students every time he has walked alone inside a freshman dorm this year. This is the quiet side of racism that the inexcusably ambiguously Police poster fosters...
Fort Bragg's racial problems--and those of the armed forces in general--go beyond this recent incident. Though the Army today is nearly 30% black, overt racism still takes place at some bases, according to a report issued by the House Armed Services Committee last December. Fort Bragg itself has been linked to other violent outbursts. In October an Army sergeant opened fire on colleagues, killing one and injuring 18. In August 1993 a soldier from the post killed four people in a local restaurant. And in 1991 Timothy McVeigh, the chief suspect in last April's bombing...