Word: racism
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...jump to a conclusion of racism is hasty. Bryan C. Barnhill ’08, President of BMF, wrote a widely forwarded email in which he characterized students who had complained about the noise as having dispositions "motivated by racist attitudes." This assertion is troubling. Just as it would be inappropriate to dismiss the idea that strands of racism could exist at Harvard, it is equally offensive to presume that what happened at the Quad indicates maliciousness toward black students...
...burden of proof is skewed. Accusations of racism are totally kosher here, yet to raise a question about the nature of the incident is to open oneself up to accusations of being a racist. Worse still, administrators whose job it is to promote campus dialogue are suppressing open discussion by rushing to the same conclusions. S. Allen Counter, longtime 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...
It’s not fair to the people who are victims of racism in the real world, people who don’t have the backing of a couple hundred like-minded peers or a university administration desperate to make amends in the face of discrimination...
...wasn’t all that shocked when a student called university police in fear of a harmless gathering of university students on university property. It’d be naïve for me to be. I know racism exists—not among all, but among enough that its occurrence is of little surprise. Despite what we’re fed by mass media, racism is racism, college campus or otherwise...
...embark on the impending retreat away from the stresses of campus life, our expectation should not be to encounter more racism because we’re away from Harvard. We should expect the same, more or less, for better or for worse...