Update — Prof. Randall Kennedy publicly credits hoax scenario

A few brief updates for the many readers we’ve had in the past few days, per our WordPress stats (9,000+ page views) — mostly to tip our hats to those who’ve helped publicize our work –and then our main update, concerning Professor Randall Kennedy.

Chance of Harvard Law “Hate Crime” Hoax is 99.99%

Mawuse H. Vormawor

Alexander J. Clayborne

Brian Klosterboer

Here is what one would need to believe to conclude that someone other than the Royall Asses was responsible for this incident.

The Evidence Inculpating the Royall Asses

Mawuse H. Vormawor

Alexander J. Clayborne

Brian Klosterboer

Just before 8:30 a.m. on November 19, as first-year students began arriving for their LegReg class with Professor Todd Rakoff in Room 1015 of Wasserstein Hall (which was scheduled to begin at 8:40 a.m.), all hell broke loose when someone noticed the black tape put over the faces of black professors. Thus “Tape-Gate” came to the attention of the world.

What the Royall Asses Did

Mawuse H. Vormawor

Alexander J. Clayborne

Brian Klosterboer

This what what we think one or more of the Royall Asses did, in carefully planning what appears, almost certainly, to be a “hate crime” hoax (just the latest in a string of at least 213 “hate crime” hoaxes perpetrated nationwide in recent years, some of them incredibly egregious).

Who are the “Royall Asses”?

Mawuse H. Vormawor

Alexander J. Clayborne

Brian Klosterboer

The “Royal Asses,” as this blog calls them, are student “agitators” (their word) at Harvard Law School who appear relatively uninterested in their legal studies, or in achieving any practical change in the world, and who instead are obsessed with ensuring that no one in the world ever again sees the following image, which is currently the official Harvard Law School crest:

 

Relax: It Was a Hoax, Not a “Hate Crime,” at Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School recently made national news, with reports of a supposed “hate crime” involving small strips of black electrical tape placed on glass-covered photographs of tenured black law professors, positioned over the professors’ faces.