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...evidenced by accusations of hyper-sensitivity and race-baiting following the Quad incident, it seems as though the general attitude has not been to learn from our country’s racist past, but to disengage from it. Underlying the refusal to acknowledge the painful reality of racism is the agonizing fear that racism still exists, or even worse, that one may be racist. In some cases, the aversion to racism even manifests itself in destructive ways; racism is so detestable that, in fear, we convince ourselves that it is no longer a problem...
...entry level jobs with criminal records were called back by employers 17 percent of the time, while only 5 percent of black applicants of similar age, gender, education, personal presentation, and work experience were called back. “People are using CORIs as a proxy for their own racist hiring practices,” says Jamila R. Martin ’07, a member of Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), which is advocating for CORI reform. CORIs contribute to a cycle of unemployment and crime which pervades our cities. A convicted felon who wants...
...believe that Harvard is “clearly a racist community,” as I was quoted as saying in The Crimson last week. That may be, however, the perception that some have after what happened. Instead, I believe that Harvard is a microcosm of the real world, where some of our students and staff may bring their racial and cultural beliefs and biases to our University community. However, the majority of our students, faculty and administrators have risen above racism to set the national standard for racial amity and tolerance in a culturally diverse academic community...
...This is an important step to take in what is clearly a racist community, in which police are allowed to use South African apartheid techniques to harass our students,” Counter told The Crimson. “If there had been 60 white students on the lawn, would police ride up on motorcycles with dark shades to make them show their...
...white churches.” A noise complaint in the middle of Reading Period is absolutely not commensurate to policies under which blacks and whites were not allowed to marry one another, not even have interracial sexual relations. Even if, as Counter asserts, Harvard is a “racist community,” it is not apartheid South Africa. The good doctor is grasping, indeed, and not for the first time...