Posted on 11/19/2015 7:25:41 PM PST by Impala64ssa
Students at Harvard University are denouncing an alleged hate crime at the school after strips of black tape were found over portraits of Harvard Law School (HLS)âs black professors Thursday morning. But there are several aspects of the supposed âhate crimeâ that suggest it could be a big hoax.
HLSâs Wasserstein Hall includes a small portrait of every single tenured faculty member at the school, but Thursday morning small black strips of tape were found covering the faces of every black professorâs portrait. The vandalism was discovered sometime before 8:30 a.m., when the first notices of the vandalism began appearing on Facebook and Twitter:
The strips of tape are already being actively denounced as a savage hate crime by Harvard students.
âThis morning at Harvard Law School we woke up to a hate crime,â writes HLS student Michele Hall on the website Blavity. âThe portraits of black professors, the ones that bring me and so many other black students feelings of pride and promise, were defaced. Their faces were covered with a single piece of black tape, crossing them out of Harvard Law Schoolâs legacy of legal scholarship. Their faces were slashed through, X-ing them out, marking them as maybe unwanted or maybe unworthy or maybe simply too antithetical to the legacy of white supremacy on which Harvard Law School has been built.â
HLS dean Martha Minow immediately called a meeting of the schoolâs students and staff to discuss the incident, and announced it is under police investigation.
While activists on Facebook and Twitter are quickly denouncing the tape as a sign of the hate that lurks beneath the surface at Harvard, the possibility must be considered that the hate crime is a hoax or false flag. Bogus hate crimes have occurred with some frequency on college campuses.
One particularly noteworthy red flag is that the black tape used to deface the portraits appears to be identical to tape that was recently used by activists affiliated with the Royall Must Fall group protesting against HLSâs current seal (which is taken from the coat of arms of the slaveholding family that endowed HLSâs first professorship).
Do they even let white guys into Harvard law any more?
White Spray Paint would be the way to go to “make a statement”.
I thought it was going to be just a little bit of tape just under the nose.
Yet another hoax? 99.9% likely
They should go to Africa, where Blacks are treated with Dignity and Respect. Why do they choose to stay in such a racist hellhole?
I am guessing that they figured black fingerprints wouldn’t show on black electrical tape....
I see from the picture it was BLACK tape.
That’s pretty racist.
; )
“Suggest” that it could be a big hoax??? Through many years these things have proven to be hoaxes at least 100% of the time. What would make anyone think that this one or the next one are not hoaxes? The odds that it is a hoax are just a bit higher than zero.
LAZY false flag. The doer of the deed doesn’t even deserve the name miscreant.What, pray tell, can the black tape signify? Is the taper trying to prevent a moral short circuit?
They can pull prints from the inside adhesive side
Hold on there...I've heard there's hundreds er thousands of nasty, evil Klan and Aryan Brotherhood types attending Harvard. Confederate flags, excrement swastikas, and open lynchings of black students. It's just horrible. /s
*The strips of tape are already being actively denounced as a savage hate crime by Harvard students. *
Drama queen!
They need to stop all of the damn whining and do their homework.
False flag indeed. Agree one-hundred percent.
Fishy.
Show me the video surveillance, it is everywhere. We will see who perpetrated the hoax.
Looks like the same black tape the #blacklivesmatter idiots used to deface a Harvard logo. So much so that now they are claiming that racist have copied our actions and even used the same tape! BWAAHAHAHA
they only lightly applied the tape to not damage it, obviously who ever applied the tape wanted to avoid damage.
Dead give away this is a hoax, if they really hated the black image....why not a knife? Why not superglue the tape on?
If only they took crime as seriously as these things. Perhaps they’d have safer neighbourhoods and a far better environment in raising kids.
If only they took fathers as serious as these people too. Perhaps they could have a family with a mom and dad. Wow, wouldn’t that be amazing.
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