"...Charles Murray is a libertarian social scientist who wrote a widely praised book about the decline of the white working class.
He has half-Asian children with an ex-wife he met in Thailand.
He’s also a “white nationalist” who “doesn’t belong” at Harvard University.
The undergraduate student government’s black caucus is demanding the Open Campus Initiative, a student group that was formed to host events that “other groups are unwilling to have,” revoke its invitation to Murray to speak tonight.
Three black caucus representatives write in The Harvard Crimson:
Read on!For the Open Campus Initiative to invite Murray to campus and give him an unchecked platform from which he can participate in and legitimize a tradition of dehumanization of marginalized people—the same tradition that is responsible for the tragedy of Charlottesville (and America’s entire history of racial trauma)—is fundamentally at odds with who we should be as a College. We believe that this event is misguided, and urge Open Campus Initiative to cancel it..."
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