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Published: 05/7/10

In a Harvard E-Mail, White Privilege on Full Display

By  Mary C. Curtis - Politics Daily
In a Harvard E-Mail, White Privilege on Full Display

I've heard the words, or ones like it, for a long time. Sometimes they are couched in qualifiers, sometimes accompanied with "I'm only kidding" nervous laughter. Sometimes no words are necessary, as intent is conveyed in a sideways glance or eye roll. Stephanie Grace just came right out and said them, then wrote them in an e-mail. The Princeton graduate and Harvard law school student, educated within an inch of her life, revealed she had not learned very much when she wrote: "I absolutely do not rule out the possibility that African-Americans are, on average, genetically predisposed to be ...

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Published: 05/5/10

Harvard Student Stephanie Grace's Racist E-Mail: A Disaster All Around

By  Sarah Wildman - Politics Daily
Harvard Student Stephanie Grace's Racist E-Mail: A Disaster All Around

To paraphrase a recent episode of "Glee:" Here's the thing about reputations. It takes a whole life to build one and just a split second to ruin it. It's the first rule of high school, and it's the most dangerous thing about the digital era. Case in point? A woman who, perhaps, deserves a soiled reputation. A woman who will surely suffer for the rest of her life from words she wrote in her early 20s. For the last ten days, legal and gossip blogs have been abuzz with the fall from grace of Stephanie Grace, a third-year law student at Harvard with a dazzling resume, an enviable clerkship ...

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