Posted on 05/08/2017 5:31:20 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Two days before Courtney Woods dresses in a cap and gown for Harvard’s traditional commencement, she will don a stole made of African kente cloth and address the crowd at a somewhat different event: a graduation ceremony for black students.
Student organizers said the event, called Black Commencement 2017, is the first universitywide ceremony for black students at Harvard, and is designed to celebrate their unique struggles and achievements at an elite institution that has been grappling with its historic ties to slavery.
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More than 170 students and 530 guests have signed up to attend the ceremony, which will be held May 23 at Holmes Field, near the Harvard Law School campus. The event will feature speeches by black students, alumni, and administrators.
“I can only imagine how special I will feel when I walk across that stage and be able to honor my identity and my struggle at Harvard,” said Woods, who is completing a master’s degree at the Graduate School of Education. “I know this is exactly what students like me need to be inspired as we leave this place as emerging global leaders.”
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Sign Up Similar ceremonies have been held for Harvard undergraduates as well as for students at Stanford, Columbia, Temple, and other campuses. On May 23, Harvard will also hold its third annual graduation ceremony for students of Latin American descent.
The ceremony for black students was created during a period of heightened activism related to racism on college campuses, and in the country at large — from the Black Lives Matter movement to the increased focus on “micro-aggressions,” passing comments that seem to trivialize or marginalize the experiences of minorities.
At Harvard, the campus has also undergone a season of soul-searching.
How many are graduates of Black Studies, Women Studies, Ethnic Studies, Social Studies, Poli Science, Grievance studies and other useless degrees?
i guess attending a ceremony for everyone is just acting too white.
I strongly support freedom of association.
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Preferential treatment is a unique struggle.
Well said. My thoughts exactly.
Get away from those white privilege people./S
We are Black Power Nationalists who think just like plantation field hands. Soon we will have white students wishing they are us.
Thats when we charge them..............................................................................................................................................
Great...this racist will be in the public school system infecting others.
“My struggle at Harvard...”
Ha, ha! It does sound pretty damn funny. What’s next, how I suffered at Davos?
Moo-chele’s senior paper was on how hard it was being black at an Ivy League school.
Those racist bast****.
The ultimate irony. Blacks bring back segregation and liberals allow it.
May be jobs for them in France or Germany
ATTENTION EMPLOYERS: Black, Harvard, graduates atr “tribal”...HIRE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
Mein Kampf an der Harvard...
Has a nice ring to it, doesn't it? /s
Look at it as separate, but equal
They do everything possible to segregate themselves from society, and yet if you address them as “you people” they get all huffy.
Instead of caps and gowns, they’ll wear grass skirts and bones through their noses. And in place of a sheepskin they’ll be handed ... well ... the skin of a sheep.
Give them free tuition. Add points to test scores. Pass them in spite of poor performance. Give them jobs before Whitey. And they will still hate Whitey and blame him for their self-inflicted pathologies.
Nietsche has an analysis of why the receivers of charity wind up hating the givers of charity. Seems accurate.
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