Harvard suppressed a student-paper story while Faust publicly acknowledged slavery’s legacy

Evidence

Soon thereafter, Ms. Lanier received an email from an editor at the Crimson informing her that the story was being killed due to “concerns the Peabody Museum has raised.” … In a rich twist, the Crimson instead ran an op-ed by then-president Dr. Faust. In it, Dr. Faust acknowledges Harvard’s complicity in slavery. “This is our history and our legacy,” she wrote, “one we must fully acknowledge and understand in order to truly move beyond the painful injustices at its core.” — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 1118

Categorization

• XREF: Sharp contrast between institutional acknowledgment discourse and concrete refusal — echoes the innocence-clause/legitimation dynamic from the Frankfurter School work and how acknowledgment can substitute for action.