Harvard elects Black man as student body president for first time in three centuries

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‘For it to come in a year of so many racial injustices with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and people who were taken from our communities, it makes it that much more of a statement,’ says Noah Harris

“It was a historic election and for it to come in a year of so many racial injustices with, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and people who were taken from our communities, it makes it that much more of a statement on the part of Harvard and the student body,” Mr Harris, who is also a co-chair of the Undergraduate Council’s Black Caucus at the school, said.

 

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Is this only due to BlackLivesMatter ?

It would have been courteous to actually put his name in the headline. I imagine people do not generally refer to him as 'that black man'

As long as he knows he probably just got the gig for virtue signalling purposes. On the back of a career's criminal's death, at that.

Good one.

Perfect

Conservatives just sprayed their cornflakes over the breakfast table, I applaud this gentleman

Something the conservatives don't want to see of accept. Congratulations to him.

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