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...space—and specifically members of the Black Men’s Forum (BMF) and Association of Black Women at Harvard (ABWH) participating in an annual contest. Since then the campus has erupted in discussion of the incident and what it shows about the presence of racism at Harvard. Given the details of the situation, the question of whether or not last Saturday’s events at the Quad were racially motivated is largely unclear. It is also largely irrelevant. What matters, instead, is that a large segment of the student body—including many leaders...
That is why the expectations surrounding racism should be no different for any person—college-educated or high school dropout, rich or poor, Quad or river—than they are for anyone else. For news outlets, either explicitly or implicitly, to hold a certain sect of people to a higher standard than another gives some people more license than others to act unjustly...
...Wednesday night, after stressing that the “Quad incident” was only an indicator of deeper race-relations problems, Barnhill called on those present to share tales of personal encounters with racism at Harvard. In response, several male black students told stories of not being able hail a cab, or being asked to show their ID cards by officers despite wearing Harvard sweatshirts. After each tale, the crowd chanted “I Am Harvard” as an affirmation of their rightful presence at the University...
...it’s why it’s at least the ninth such party to occur on an American college campus since the start of this academic year. The media rightly remarked that this isn’t the first time in recent memory that glaring and overt racism has made waves at a US college, but the amount of attention makes clear that the media outcry is far from the “yet again” attitude expressed by a few online blogs...
...media is being far too harsh in its indictment of all college students, acting as if a college student’s racism is more surprising—and should be less commonplace—than that of the average American. It’s just as surprising in the world of academia, and just as prevalent as anywhere else. We’re not of a higher moral stature than the rest of society...