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Kelvin Green II



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Opinion guest column

A Public Letter to President Sally Kornbluth

By Kelvin Green II May. 9, 2024

It’s as simple as 1-2-3; and the good news is you wrote the steps. It’s time for you to lead us and the world at-large into a brighter future where “every individual has the freedom and support to flourish and grow, and in which we all have a sense of community, connection and shared purpose.”

Opinion guest column

The case for labor unions

By Kelvin Green II Mar. 3, 2022

Those who organize to form labor unions are neither irrational nor impulsive. Those who organize to form labor unions are critical thinkers driven by necessity.

Opinion guest column

Crossing the line

By Kelvin Green II Sep. 30, 2021

I want to instead focus on what I see as the more serious problem at hand that gives place for racist acts of this kind to manifest: borders.

Opinion guest column

Free Palestine

By Kelvin Green II Jun. 4, 2021

I stand in solidarity with you. My heart longs for you. I know what it is to be oppressed.

Opinion guest column

#StopAsianHate: A call to action for the MIT community

By Kelvin Green II and Ishana Shastri Apr. 22, 2021

For far too long, MIT has excused racism, fetishization, and anti-Asian sentiment within the Institute. We must begin to acknowledge that these issues cannot be divorced from our campus.

Opinion guest column

Blurred vision

By Kelvin Green II Apr. 8, 2021

In reflection of MIT’s 160th birthday approaching this Saturday, I have been pondering what has become of the school founded by a slaveholder in 1861. Thus, I have been pondering this plan.

Opinion guest column

African-American fiction

By Kelvin Green II Apr. 8, 2021

In the United States, de jure (and subsequent de facto) prohibition of teaching both reading and writing to its enslaved population (called ‘Black’) was both ubiquitous and fatally enforced. This inhumane (and racist) practice resulted in many unwritten stories and silenced voices of the enslaved African population.

Opinion guest column

The cloak of racism

By Kelvin Green II Mar. 25, 2021

Just because it takes critical thinking to use language which adequately reaches for the truth, does not mean we should give up or sacrifice the right words for a sound bite or quick answer.

Opinion guest column

Silencing

By Kelvin Green II Mar. 18, 2021

Understanding the way silencing happens is paramount if we are to move toward unity, justice, and appreciation of the critical insights we all bring to bear in the advancement of the spaces we have been gifted to occupy.

Opinion guest column

The friend of racism

By Kelvin Green II Mar. 11, 2021

Almost every day at MIT, I hear the words “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” or DEI. What becomes apparent is that we do not know anymore what we are saying and where we are going. Language should not stop at halfway attempts to capture an idea. Justice is the goal.

Opinion guest column

Reimagining our MIT curriculum

By Danielle Geathers, Kelvin Green II, Tyler Lawal, Myles Noel, Brian Williams, and Sienna Williams Feb. 25, 2021

Each year, hundreds of MIT students graduate lacking a fundamental understanding of the effects that anti-Black racism and other systems of oppression have on our present-day technologies, even our own decision-making.

Opinion guest column

MIT’s impact will be determined by its humanistic pursuits

By Kelvin Green II Aug. 12, 2020

The opportunity to demonstrate or abdicate leadership in this role presents itself each time MIT responds or neglects the challenges facing citizens across the nation and the globe.

Opinion open letter

Student evaluation on the progress of the 2015 BSU/BGSA Recommendations

By Kelvin Green II, Josué J. López, and Candace Ross Jun. 2, 2020

We call upon MIT to establish an Institute-wide body this Fall with the charge to create a long-term strategic plan, including concrete measures to increase the number of Black graduate students. To be effective this strategic plan must be backed by the purse strings of the Institute.

Opinion letter to the editor

Current UA Officers agree Danielle Geathers and Yu Jing Chen stand out as leaders in this time of uncertainty

By Kelvin Green II Apr. 30, 2020

Danielle and Yu Jing’s platform focuses on the student to administration transparency vector, building infrastructure to increase the UA’s awareness of student concerns and thus increasing the UA’s ability to advocate those interests to administration.

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