Harvard And White America’s Creepy Obsession With Hoarding Black Remains

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White America has always been a nation of serial killers.

The hair, scalps, ears, skulls, fingers, toes, skin, genitals, and photographs of its Black and Indigenous victims have been hoarded in private basements and attics, archives, and museums, and passed down like heirlooms of racial violence for centuries.  After 175 years, Harvard University finally gave up photos of enslaved people they clung to like necrophiliacs with a fetish for Black death.

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