Tagged: Harvard
“At a campus community meeting Thursday, [Harvard Law dean Martha] Minow acknowledged that racism is a ‘serious problem’ at the law school and said that ‘racism exists in America and in the United States and in Harvard and in Harvard Law School,’ reported the Harvard Crimson, a campus newspaper.”
When shit hits the fan and blatant acts of racism become exposed, now you want to acknowledge REALITY and make a statement like that?!?!?! GTFOH!?!
Charles Olgetree detailed Harvard Law’s history of racism in his law article published by HARVARD BLACKLETTER LAW JOURNAL in 2009 titled “From Dred Scott to Barack Obama: The Ebb and Flow of Race Jurisprudence”…so this isn’t anything new.
So my question to the administration, dean and other decisionmakers at Harvard is: What has Harvard University, the deans and others been doing SINCE THE PASSAGE OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964 to fix this widespread problem of institutionalized and systemic racism and create a learning environment that’s racially diverse and inclusive to all???
This is sad because white racism is a learned behavior. Anyone with a knowledge of history knows that those classified as white are not superior — biologically, intellectually or spiritually. What sadder is that we treat those who graduate from these ivy league schools as if they are the smartest people on the planet, but how educated can these ivy leaguers truly be if they are being brainwashed with nothing but a bunch of white lies about the history of Europe and America?
Source: “Harvard Law has ‘serious’ racism problem, dean says after Black Professors’ Portraits Defaced.” The Washington Post. November 19, 2015. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/11/19/defacing-of-black-harvard-professor-portraits-investigated-as-hate-crime/.
“Harvard’s role in this struggle for racial justice proceeded unabated into the 1960s as more African American students attended the Law School…One of the great successes of these early pioneers was their decision to press Harvard Law School to hire black faculty. Derek Bok, who was the Law School dean at the time and who later became president of Harvard University, accepted the students’ demands; one of the Harvard Black Law Students Association (HBLSA) leaders, Robert Bell (who is now the Chief Judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals), was allowed to meet with Professor Derrick Bell, then teaching at the University of Southern California, and offer him a position. In 1969, he became the first African American member of the Harvard Law School faculty. Harvard students’ ability to translate a critical mass of black law students into its first African American faculty member was a celebration to behold.”
Source: Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. From Dred Scott to Barack Obama: The Ebb and Flow of Race Jurisprudence. 25 Harvard Blackletter L. J. 6-7. 2009.
congrats Kwasi Enin on getting accepted into EIGHT Ivy-league schools!!!
Seventeen-year-old Kwasi Enin of Shirley took a shot at — and won — what amounts to an academic royal flush: He applied to and was accepted at all eight Ivy League schools.
But the William Floyd High School senior said he never thought he’d land slots in the class of 2018 at Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale. He hasn’t decided where he’ll attend, but would cross Long Island Sound to attend Yale in New Haven, Conn., depending on the financial aid package offered.
Kwasi said he thought he’d just give it the old college try and “maybe two or three of them” would bite, he said. The eight Ivy League colleges are among the nation’s most selective institutions of higher education. As an example of what Kwasi accomplished, Harvard has one of the lowest acceptance rates in the country at just 5.9 percent for the fall of 2014 — 2,023 students out of 34,295 applicants.
For Kwasi, applying to a competitive college wasn’t exactly a gamble. He has an SAT score of 2,250 out of 2,400, which places him in the 99th percentile for all students taking the exam. He has taken and scored high on many Advanced Placement exams. He is an athlete, a shot putter, in fact, and his baritone voice can belt out a tune when he’s not playing viola for the school orchestra.
Still, he said, “I’ve never heard of someone getting all eight.”
He has now surpassed the accomplishments of some of his uncles and cousins, who were accepted to several Ivies. “I always thought they were far better than me academically,” Kwasi said.
He began hearing from each of the schools on March 27, the date when tens of thousands of anxious students log onto the schools’ websites to see if they have been accepted. Kwasi had already been accepted to Princeton in December, but he hoped to make the cut at a few more.
Brown: Yes. Columbia: Yes. Cornell: Yes. And the yesses kept coming. “I was like — this can’t be happening.”
By session’s end, about 5 p.m., he had checked six Ivy League schools and then received an email at about 5:30 p.m. from Harvard — a school he thought would never accept him.
“It has to be the one to reject me,” he said as he sat in his high school library Monday, still incredulous. “They’re Harvard.”
And if that was not enough, he also gained acceptance to Duke University, Stony Brook University, SUNY Geneseo and Binghamton University.
This makes me proud! Now if only our nation’s educational system and curriculum would teach the TRUTH, more African Americans would excel — despite an individual’s socioeconomic status.
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