Harvard Law professor writes about allegedly racist black tape incident
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A Harvard Law professor who says his photo was covered with black tape as part of a recent incident has written an op-ed for the New York Times that brings a different perspective to the situation.
Rather than jump on the band wagon and cry racism, professor Randall Kennedy writes that the motive was unclear.
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"Perhaps the defacer is part of the law school community. But maybe not. Perhaps the defacer is white. But maybe not. Perhaps the taping is meant to convey anti-black contempt or hatred for the African-American professors," Kennedy wrote. "But maybe it was meant to protest the perceived marginalization of black professors, or was a hoax meant to look like a racial insult in order to provoke a crisis, or was a rebuke to those who have recently been taping over the law school's seal, which memorializes a family of slaveholders from colonial times."