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...trail ahead of Redd as a student on the grass pounds a drum. They have donned masks made of white paper plates, white shirts and ties. Some of them hold a sign that reads, “Where is the diversity at our university?” Isaac J. Weiler ’02-’03, president of the Black Men’s Forum, stands on top of a bench and hollers his support, hands cupped around his mouth. The protesters stop in front of University Hall, in every tourist’s favorite spot...
...Weiler has found himself most at home socially in the Black Men’s Forum. Over dinner, I ask him one of the survey questions: How often does he eat with other black students? His response is similar to Anadu’s. He chuckles. “When do I not eat at the black table?” he asks. “There’s only a black table because there are a sea of white tables...
...Weiler, who is half black and half Jewish, chose to become more active in the black community on campus after being what he calls “incognegro” during his first year. “I had no black friends,” he says. When he arrived at Harvard, he was more involved with the Jewish community. For Weiler, a self-described “mutt” who interacts socially with students of all ethnicities, shifting his primary social community was the result of many factors, including politics (he feels his views are more liberal than...
...agree with Fong’s view that it’s time to ignore race. “Not to say that Harvard hasn’t made strides. But there’s a long way to go,” he says. Minority communities, Weiler adds, come together almost through necessity and offer minority students a chance for their voices to be heard...
...Anytime you lose someone as vocal as West was, it’s a loss to the academic debate that can go on at a University such as Harvard, and I think it’s a shame,” said Isaac J. Weiler ’02, president of the Black Men’s Forum...