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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...lack of proficiency at powder puff politics left my brother and me in constant retreat. We were even desperate enough to try to talk to the correspondents covering the event, a step that the experienced wives were never forced to take. But the society reporter would not talk...
...local media and the Boston police department were willing participants in Charles Stuart's hate campaign. Even the national media were all too eager to sensationalize the killing of a white pregnant woman and her unborn child by a "savage" Black. Other murders that day, such as the slaying of James Moody, a Black man, did not receive one one-hundredth the press coverage...
Unfortunately, being in the wrong place at the wrong time still appears to be a reason to cast blame, even at Harvard. Last year, Cambridge police harrassed two Black students because they happened to be running for a shuttle bus at the same time a Rix drug store was being robbed. The police proceeded to pull the two Black students off the shuttle bus without explaining to the two men why or for what they were under suspicion. No apologies can ever erase the humiliation that those two students suffered in front of their peers...
...irony of the shuttlebus case, as with the Stuart case, was that the actual culprits weren't even Black. The police were told the Rix burglars were white, but confronted the two Black students anyway...
...appears that even the ivy-covered walls of Harvard cannot escape the taint of racial prejudice. In the light of the Stuart case and the shuttle bus incident involving two Harvard students, I hope that America, including the members of the Harvard community, will conduct some serious self-reflection. And that whites will hesitate, question and thoroughly analyze a situation instead of immediately accusing a Black person of wrongdoing...