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Harvard Students Decry ‘Hate Crime’ After Tape Found On Black Profs’ Portraits
Daily Caller ^ | 11/18/15 | Blake Neff

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)’s black professors Thursday morning. But there are several aspects of the supposed “hate crime” that suggest it could be a big hoax.

HLS’s 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 professor’s 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.

“This morning at Harvard Law School we woke up to a hate crime,” writes HLS student Michele Hall on the website Blavity. “The 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 School’s 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.”

HLS dean Martha Minow immediately called a meeting of the school’s 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 HLS’s current seal (which is taken from the coat of arms of the slaveholding family that endowed HLS’s first professorship).


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: cryracism; harvard; hatecrimehoax
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To: Impala64ssa

Harvard security cameras

http://www.tycosecurityproducts.com/ecs_harvard.aspx


21 posted on 11/19/2015 7:53:02 PM PST by doug from upland (The ultimate in foolishness -- "'Romney is just as bad as Obama" WTF?)
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To: Ouderkirk

Do they even let white guys into Harvard law any more?


22 posted on 11/19/2015 7:55:13 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: matt1234

White Spray Paint would be the way to go to “make a statement”.


23 posted on 11/19/2015 7:55:40 PM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: Impala64ssa

I thought it was going to be just a little bit of tape just under the nose.


24 posted on 11/19/2015 8:04:11 PM PST by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Yet another hoax? 99.9% likely


25 posted on 11/19/2015 8:08:18 PM PST by GeronL (I remember when this was a conservative forum)
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To: gaijin

They should go to Africa, where Blacks are treated with Dignity and Respect. Why do they choose to stay in such a racist hellhole?


26 posted on 11/19/2015 8:09:24 PM PST by Tea Party Terrorist (Why work for a living when you can vote for a living?)
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To: doug from upland

I am guessing that they figured black fingerprints wouldn’t show on black electrical tape....


27 posted on 11/19/2015 8:22:04 PM PST by Aut Pax Aut Bellum (I love my dog, but a .45 is man's best friend...)
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To: Impala64ssa

I see from the picture it was BLACK tape.

That’s pretty racist.

; )


28 posted on 11/19/2015 8:24:14 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Impala64ssa

“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.


29 posted on 11/19/2015 8:25:12 PM PST by arthurus (Het is waar. Tutti i liberali sono feccia.)
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To: Sasparilla

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?


30 posted on 11/19/2015 8:28:13 PM PST by arthurus (Het is waar. Tutti i liberali sono feccia.)
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To: Aut Pax Aut Bellum

They can pull prints from the inside adhesive side


31 posted on 11/19/2015 8:33:31 PM PST by doug from upland (The ultimate in foolishness -- "'Romney is just as bad as Obama" WTF?)
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To: Ouderkirk
Odds that it was some racist white boy....practically zero

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

32 posted on 11/19/2015 8:39:54 PM PST by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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To: Impala64ssa

*The strips of tape are already being actively denounced as a savage hate crime by Harvard students. *

Drama queen!


33 posted on 11/19/2015 8:43:04 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Impala64ssa

They need to stop all of the damn whining and do their homework.


34 posted on 11/19/2015 9:44:52 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#blackfridaysmatter)
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To: FreedomPoster

False flag indeed. Agree one-hundred percent.


35 posted on 11/19/2015 9:48:14 PM PST by pepsionice
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To: Impala64ssa

Fishy.

Show me the video surveillance, it is everywhere. We will see who perpetrated the hoax.


36 posted on 11/19/2015 10:45:11 PM PST by Titus-Maximus (It doesn't matter who votes for whom, it only matters who counts the votes - Joe Stalin)
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To: Titus-Maximus

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

37 posted on 11/19/2015 10:59:31 PM PST by icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
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To: Impala64ssa

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?


38 posted on 11/20/2015 3:15:46 AM PST by dila813
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To: gaijin

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.


39 posted on 11/20/2015 5:11:11 AM PST by Bulwyf
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To: PennsylvaniaMom
Electrical tape? Tape that doesn’t leave goo behind? Tape that will pull off so easily and not deface anything?

E-tape is usually smoother-looking, and not that wide. I'm guessing it's Gaff tape. Doesn't leave much residue either.
40 posted on 11/20/2015 7:57:45 AM PST by Svartalfiar
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