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Telling a Filipino Story At Unity Weekend for Harvard Alumni of Color

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If higher ed stamps a student forever, it’s an institution’s alumni association that makes sure you never forget who birthed you. Or in subsequent years, where you placed your checkbook. Or your bitcoin wallet.

Of course, if you went to Harvard, it somehow gets hardwired.  Alumni may still have a hard time finding their checkbook, but for some reason who needs the alumni association?

People who went to Harvard tend to never let you forget they went there. Emil GuillermoEmil Guillermo

I supposed, I’m guilty of that. But only because as a person of color who graduated from there in the 70s, the experience was new and different for everyone.

They didn’t have people there like me.

The Harvard experience isn’t like milk. It’s not homogenized. Mine sure wasn’t.

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