Word: racism
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What ensued was a distinctly American bout of soul-searching, heated debate, and pointed accusations of racism across the entire campus. The reason? The Quad revellers were black...
...problem with Harvard culture is that it is a culture of appearances. Despite the fact that a central tenet of those who are supposedly stamping out racism is that we should be judged by words and ideas, not by race or cultural background, they themselves are the worst perpetuators of that culture. Since I’m the upper middle class white daughter of Harvard graduates who has endured relatively little hardship, my viewpoint is moot on many topics. If someone of my background questions an assertion that something is racist, she is deemed racist herself. We must strive...
...ABHW have now switched gears to kick start 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...
None of this is to say that racism isn't a problem at Harvard. But if there is something positive to emerge from the Quad lawn incident, it is the “I Am Harvard” campaign. Launched at Primal Scream last Wednesday night, the campaign, lead primarily by black students, intends to address issues of race and belonging on this campus...
...early books included coarse stereotypes, and Hergé has been accused of racism in Tintin in Congo (although this book is particularly popular in Africa). Hergé was later arrested for being a wartime collaborator as he continued to draw cartoons for newspapers that were controlled by the Nazi occupiers during World War II. He spent a night in prison, but his file was eventually closed without legal action. But rumors and insinuations followed him for the rest of his life, and he had frequent bouts of depression...