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...Harvard community during the Living Wage Campaign of two years ago, or more recent demonstrations about the possible war with Iraq, to be reassured that Harvard students are not apathetic to societal debates. The first step towards progress is dialogue, so let’s start talking about slavery??€”in the present tense instead of the past...
...cosmetic means of achieving a worthy end—amends for the brutal experiences of blacks under slavery and segregation. Americans need to confront the realities of domestic racial inequalities; the issues of institutional disadvantages faced by blacks should not be swept under the table. But 137 years after slavery??€™s abolition, reparations would not be a constructive solution to these problems...
...Yale University, Harvard University and Brown University, on the grounds that these institutions may have received donations years ago that could be connected to slavery. Targeting private institutions that had no direct role in holding or trading slaves—even if they may have indirectly benefited financially from slavery??€”is not the best way to deal with disadvantages faced by blacks today. There is a morally important distinction between actively participating in the slave trade and receiving a charitable donation from someone who owned a slave...
...rest of the finalists—who had written on topics including terrorism, defects in Florida’s voting system and ties between the chocolate industry and modern-day slavery??€”were supposed to have their moment yesterday...
...Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller’s Bust of a Woman, a partial cast of her Emancipation that now resides in Harriet Tubman Square. A photograph of the entire statue—showing young slaves newly released from the terror of a young bird’s claw, representing slavery??€”accompanies the Bust. Fuller perfectly captures a combined look of hope, fear and pride on the Bust’s face...