Combating systemic racism appears to boil down to a couple taps of the thumb: Instagramming a black square or re-Tweeting a Malcolm X quote. As companies that profit directly from White supremacy hide behind posting vague platitudes lamenting racism, social media activity threatens to conceal true attitudes and inaction under the impression of engagement.
In a distinctly ironic and deeply tragic parallelism, despotic regimes are instrumentalising George Floyd’s death to hold a mirror to a Janus-faced America – an America whose avowed principles of justice and liberty have fallen afoul of their victims both abroad and at home.
Minneapolis is brimming with emotion. But perhaps love — for George Floyd and his family, for small businesses, and for the community — will win out in the end.
The United States of America is falling apart. With even greater challenges on the horizon, ones sure to continue to pull at the fabric of our society, my hope is that we can find it within ourselves to move forward with compassion.
We owe it to Floyd to memorialize his life even as we demand justice for his death. And we owe it to George Floyd to do better by countless other Black Americans precisely where we failed him.
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Associate U.S. Editor Chloe E.W. Levine moderates a dialogue between Menat Bahnasy, President of the Harvard College Democrats, and Wesley Donhauser, President of the...
At Harvard, we spend a lot of time analyzing, discussing, and dissecting the world around us. Perhaps we should spend more time trying to make it better.
There is evidence to suggest that lasers could revolutionize protesting around the world, but the final decision to use a laser or not is fundamentally a personal choice all protesters need to consider.
It will take a tremendous but necessary effort in order to create a society that is more equitable for all of its participants. Until then, free expression will continue to be a right that is granted only to a select few.
