Students at Harvard’s Kennedy School Demand Mandatory Anti-Racism Courses
“When placing Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) within the context of our white supremacist society, the racial inequity and injustice at this institution is not surprising”
Demanding something be made mandatory makes no sense. That’s like saying, I demand that you make me do something.
Campus Reform reports:
Harvard students push for curriculum ‘audit,’ mandatory ‘anti-racism’ courses
Harvard Kennedy School students sent an open letter to administrators demanding racial equity actions, including a mandatory anti-racism course for Masters degree students and a full “audit” of the curriculum using an “anti-racist, anti-colonial lens.”
Roughly 200 members of the Kennedy School’s 1,200 students signed the letter from the HKS Equity Coalition, which is working to “mobilize our peers, pressure the administration to create transformative change, and hold each other accountable in community.”
“When placing Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) within the context of our white supremacist society, the racial inequity and injustice at this institution is not surprising,” opened the letter. “However, it is also no excuse for the school’s complacency.”
The students demanded that the Kennedy School implement a semester-long course on “global racism, colonialism, and public policy,” which would be mandatory for all Master’s degree students.
The letter expressed concern that “without a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the institutions of domination that have historically excluded groups from social, political, and economic participation, HKS graduates are poised to deepen social hierarchies and inequities in their work.”
In addition to establishing a new class, students would like their administrators to audit curricula “using an anti-racist, anti-colonial lens.”
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Makes sense. They desperately need someone to teach them what racism is. They clearly don’t understand the concept.
That, or they are admitting they are racists and guidance from their betters.
I thought you had to be smart to get into this school? Maybe they can fix the “systemic racism” by discounting the grades of white students by, say, 30%?
Quiet! Don’t give them any ideas.
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If they have dark skin, they do not need to be smart.
“Roughly 200”, most of whom are probably meritless Affirmative enrollees.
Does this course they are pushing also cover the huge amount of racism currently practiced by people of color against whites?
This just means that 17% of the students want to cram their political views down the throats of the other 83% of the students.
I wonder if the administrators will be spineless and let this small minority of students dictate what is to be forced upon the others. That’s what Socialism and Marxism are all about.