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Home Front: Culture Wars
Harvard Univ. to host commencement ceremony honoring black students
2017-05-11
(CNN) Michael Huggins' grandfather never learned how to read or write. He was born in Mississippi when Jim Crow laws still legalized racial segregation, but eventually left in the 1950s by riding in the trunk of a car that was leaving the state. Two generations later, his grandson is graduating from Harvard.

"If he hadn't made his decision to leave and find a better life for his family, I wouldn't be here," Huggins said. "Graduating from Harvard, it's spiritual for me. And I know so many people who have stories like that."

Huggins, who will graduate with a master's degree from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, hopes that such stories will be shared and celebrated at Harvard University's first commencement ceremony specifically honoring black graduates.

The event, to be held two days prior to Harvard's traditional commencement, aims to honor the achievements of black students at Harvard and to share their experiences with the larger community.

More than 300 students and 500 guests have registered to attend the May 23 event. The event will be an optional, additional ceremony.

The ceremony, Huggins said, is not meant to be divisive, but rather an affirmation of identity and community.
Posted by:Besoeker

#15  makes it easier to pool campaign dollars for a criminal defense atty retainer
Posted by: Frank G   2017-05-11 23:43  

#14  It all started in the U.S. Congress where there is no white caucus, no Asian caucas, no Latino caucus, but there is a black caucus.
Posted by: Nero White 3083   2017-05-11 22:42  

#13  ...separate one for Asians too?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-05-11 15:55  

#12  Somebody axe them if this was what MLK dreamed of?
Posted by: Crusader   2017-05-11 15:14  

#11  Never mind isolated, rjschwarz. What happens when white guilt runs out?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-05-11 14:38  

#10  "They can't realistically live isolated from whites in the real world can they?"

RJ - as long as it's enabled by the rest of us ...sure...as long as we pay for it and let it happen.

Case in point - UC Santa Cruz and the recent cave to the black demands. Working out pretty good for them I'd say. How far would non-black conservatives get if they tried the same thing? You know the answer..
Posted by: Warthog   2017-05-11 14:33  

#9  I wonder if African Americans have really thought out the end game of all of this voluntary apartheid. They can't realistically live isolated from whites in the real world can they?
Posted by: rjschwarz   2017-05-11 13:03  

#8  as Instapundit says,

they told me that if I voted for Trump racial segregation would be back in the University and they were right
Posted by: lord garth   2017-05-11 12:35  

#7  If you wanted to reverse the effects of the enlightenment, and turn education into a joke - what would you do differently?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-05-11 11:23  

#6  Harvard is racist? Who would have known (sark)?
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-05-11 09:39  

#5  Huggins, who will graduate with a master's degree from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and a racialist chip on his unemployable shoulders
Posted by: Frank G   2017-05-11 08:57  

#4  ....once "separate" they'll fail and then demand even more subsidy from whites and other groups without mass cultural failure.

And when those subsidies are gone, the nationalization of private businesses and natural resources will be forthcoming. Anyone detect a pattern ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-05-11 08:26  

#3  once "separate" they'll fail and then demand even more subsidy from whites and other groups without mass cultural failure.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2017-05-11 08:20  

#2  I've been through all this $hit before, with the separate graduations and proms and what not and I'm sick of it.

If you (anyone) doesn't want to be part of the society than move out. All of those entertainers and athletes can pony up a few mill each and get you started elsewhere.

Back in '67 when I graduated HS was right in the middle of the mess. There was major rioting 10 miles away etc. etc. You were in the right then, you won as you should have, now deal with it.
Posted by: AlanC   2017-05-11 08:10  

#1  The goal is not a separate commencement ceremony. The goal is a completely separate institution and government. Embedded tribalism cannot simply be whisked away with the magic broom of multiculturalism.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-05-11 07:06  

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