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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]09:36 said No. I also didn't read an article that said "Harvard is white, and has been white" and I dont' see people telling people of color that they should go to Howard vs. Harvard.

Of course, you wouldn't see that because you're colorblind.  Your myopic view of history purposely ignores the well-established facts of Harvard's founding.

During the colonial years, Harvard students were deeply entangled with slave-owning. They recited their lessons to slave-owning professors like Judah Monis and obeyed the rules set out by slave-owning presidents like Increase Mather and Benjamin Wadsworth. They ate meals and slept in beds prepared by four generations of the Bordman family, the college stewards, whose many slaves likely did some or all of the actual cooking and cleaning. On Sundays they attended church at the First Church of Cambridge, where they listened to sermons by the slave-owning minister, William Brattle, himself a Harvard graduate of the class of 1680. When they graduated, many Harvard students became slave owners themselves.

Harvard, Brown, and Yale were deeply entrenched in the slave trade and prospered because of their association with the trade.  I think most would agree that Harvard was indeed a WHITE school and fought vigorously to remain so.

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I hope that people do consider me colorblind.   I hope in the future we all are. [/quote]

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