Joint Letter to the Editor with Fossil Fuel Divest and HOOP

The Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign (FFDH), the Harvard Prison Divestment Campaign (HPDC), and the Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine Campaign (HOOP) stand in solidarity with one another and unequivocally advocate for divestment justice and the end of Harvard’s profiteering from human suffering. We have opted not to send this letter to The Crimson so as to not give them page clicks for our work (again). 

Time and time again, The Crimson Editorial Board pumps out pablum-laden editorials that reveal their racist compromises with justice and morality. We believe that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said it best. He wrote in his letter from Birmingham Jail, “I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the…Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice[.]” He lambasted the white moderate “who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a ‘more convenient season.’” 

Dr. King said it then. We say it now: Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than the absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. 

It is a pity that the Editorial Board continues to oppose our justice work in this way. Our three divestment groups ask the Crimson to do better. Furthermore, we ask that The Crimson listen to the demands of Act on a Dream and to stop calling ICE on undocumented people.