The University of Pennsylvania Misuses Dead & Unidentified Black Child For “Educational” Purposes

No. Just No. In fact, H*ll No!

Destiny S. Harris
4 min readApr 29, 2021

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According to the University of Pennsylvania (a school I used to want to go to when I was younger) and certain faculty, it okay to utilize the remains of Black children — killed in police bombings for strictly educational purposes. Disclaimer: As long as nobody knows about it. But they’ve been EXPOSED.

As I started reading the article, the title (Ivy League college apologizes for using bones of Black children in course) threw me off, and I thought to myself maybe this isn’t as bad as it seems, but then I continued reading the article and quickly realized the title of the article did not do justice to the crime committed (note to Guardian — don’t diminish what took place here).

Here Are A Couple of WTF Contextual Details:

  1. “The physical remains of one of the children who were killed in the bombing of the Move black liberation organization in Philadelphia in May 1985 have been in the anthropological collections of the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton for the past 36 years [and utilized in case studies and online courses].”
  2. “The institutions have held on to the heavily burned fragments, and since…

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