This Morning At Harvard Law School We Woke Up To A Hate Crime

18,115
11,769
Joined
Jan 11, 2013
 
harvardlaw6-e1447948602620-696x720.jpg


The hallways of Harvard Law School are lined with portraits of every tenured professor in the history of the university. As a first-year law student, the first time that I walked down those hallways I was painfully aware of the white men that take up most of the space on the walls, but also proud to see black professors hanging right beside them.

The portraits make me feel a strange tension of pain yet promise. I am constantly reminded of the legacy of white supremacy that founded this school and still breathes through every classroom and lecture hall. I am also shown the small inroads that professors of color have made, breaking apart the notion that whiteness is the epitome of legal scholarship. This is how I felt yesterday walking through those hallways.

The portraits of black professors, the ones that bring me and so many other black students feelings of pride and promise, were defaced. Their faces were covered with a single piece of black tape, crossing them out of Harvard Law School’s legacy of legal scholarship. Their faces were slashed through, X-ing them out, marking them as maybe unwanted or maybe unworthy or maybe simply too antithetical to the legacy of white supremacy on which Harvard Law School has been built. 

Harvard Law School was, after all, founded with the money from the sale of over 100 Antiguan enslaved people (because they were not slaves but people who were brutally and inhumanely enslaved) by the Royall family.  

To this day, the Royall family crest is the seal for Harvard Law School, and their legacy of white supremacy drips from every corner of the campus, like the blood of the 77 enslaved people murdered after a slave revolt on the Royall plantation.

The defacing of the portraits of black professors this morning is a further reminder that white supremacy built this place, is the foundation of this place, and that we never have and still do not belong here.

We are not afraid.

This morning at Harvard Law School we woke up to a hate crime. And tomorrow you will wake up to a hate crime on your campus too. And they — the cowards who deface the portraits of black professors, who hang nooses in front of black dorms, who draw swatstikas with human feces  — want for that to be the end of the story.  

But we, black students on campus, are not afraid of what you do under the covers of darkness and hatred and cowardice. We will march and scream and sit in and walk out and shout our demands and make ourselves heard and tear down these hallways of white supremacy because we belong here too. And no longer can you make us feel that we do not belong here. Because our sweat and blood and death and courage is what really built these hallways.

This morning at Harvard Law School we woke up to a hate crime. And what we do next will shake white supremacy at Harvard Law School to its core.

http://blavity.com/this-morning-at-harvard-law-school-we-woke-up-to-a-hate-crime/
thoughts? 
nerd.gif
 
 
Last edited:
Sad.

Haters gon' hate though, and we will continue to overcome.

Hopefully, cameras in the vicinity (I hope) caught the perp. on tape.





...
 
Last edited:
OP the king of making race threads , if this were the bodybuilding.com misc you'd be deep in the red sea crew 
 
whether this happened in public or not Harvard is an institution that is going to harbor that ignorant attitude, it's ingrained in the roots of the school.
 
 
Despite the disparities, and despite Minow’s statement, not everyone is convinced that there’s a problem. Prominent Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz blasted the string of campus protests around the nation to Business Insider.

“The last thing these students want is diversity,” he said. “They may want superficial diversity, because for them diversity is a code word for ‘more of us.’ They don't want more conservatives, they don’t want more white students, they don't want more heterosexuals.” Dershowitz, who is white, straight, and male, received tenure at Harvard Law in 1967.
sick.gif
 
Read this in the comments section on Gawker:

The most insidious part of the this is that the perpetrator used tape...so as to avoid being charged with destruction of property if s/he were discovered. That’s pretty much the only way this could be considered even a misdemeanor crime. Way to think like a lawyer.

:smh:
 
Today, they put tape over the teachers black people identify with. Wonder if they will change when they get their jobs after graduation...
 
Last edited:
Read this in the comments section on Gawker:

The most insidious part of the this is that the perpetrator used tape...so as to avoid being charged with destruction of property if s/he were discovered. That’s pretty much the only way this could be considered even a misdemeanor crime. Way to think like a lawyer.

:smh:

this isn't foolproof. if removing the tape causes damage then a destruction of property charge is warranted.
 
 
 
 
Cameras exist, so we might find out who did this



Let's see if Harvard releases their identity.
not if mommy and daddy pay to bury it


And also if it's not a crime.
the fact that it may not have been a crime wouldn't save them from the court of public opinion

If it's not a crime, do you think the identity will be revealed? I doubt it.
 
vandalism is the destruction or damage of property

tape on glass would not be considered destruction or damage 
 
so no one else was in the room when this was taking place? Sounds like there are probably more than one suspects involved. 
mean.gif
 
do most schools have security cameras in the hallways? I dont recall noticing any at my school, not that I look out for them 
 
My thoughts are every time I see one of your threads I ask "Is this the one where he doesn't just post a story and ask for our thoughts."

And then it's not.
 
Back
Top Bottom