Colorblindness: Does It Foster Racism
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Final exams are vastly approaching at Harvard law school and as usual they are going to be brutal. Students across the campus are spending the majority of their time in the library preparing for the gauntlet of exams.
Peter is a student at Harvard and he too, like the other students, is getting prepared for final exams. It's Thursday night and Peter has been at the library studying for six hours. He has taken every measure he can think of to stay awake including coffee and Red Bull but now he can't keep his eyes open any longer. He decides to call it quits for the night when he looks at his watch and notices that it is 2:30 a.m. He knows that the last campus bus comes in ten minutes and that the bus stop is on the other side of the quad. If he misses the bus he will have to walk the four miles to his apartment. He quickly packs up his books and puts on his Alpha Tau Omega hooded sweatshirt. He then begins to run from the library across quad to the bus stop. In his haste, Peter does not notice the police on the quad and runs right past them because he has to make the bus.
Before he knows Peter is tackled by the police and forcibly detained. The police start to berate him with questions and Peter's only thought is to get his student identification card so the police will let him go. The police realize that Peter is reaching into his pocket and they begin to beat him. Peter is so badly beaten by the police that his nose is broken, and he suffers two broken ribs. Peter is then arrested and taken to jail. He is thrown into a holding cell and not allowed to nurse his
injuries. Peter is held overnight and released the next day once the police realize that he is a student and he explains his story.
Peter wants to sue because he feels that this was an incident of brutality and overreaction on the part of the police. The police...
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