Have to question the timing.
Via Fox News:
Black tape was found over the pictures of black professors outside a Harvard Law School lecture hall Thursday, one day after students on the campus marched to express solidarity with black students at colleges across the country.
Campus police are investigating the matter, which was brought to light after a law student shared the image on Twitter.
“I am saddened and angered by this act,” Martha Minow, a dean, wrote in an email to students. She was meeting with students at the school to discuss the incident, The Boston Globe reported.
The paper reported that the tape was eventually removed and replaced with positive comments about the professors.
Dozens of students gathered in the Science Center Plaza at about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday to support black activists on other college campuses.
UPDATE: I’d be shocked if this wasn’t a hoax.
Via Daily Caller:
Students at Harvard University are denouncing an alleged hate crime at the school after strips of black tape were found over portraits of Harvard Law School (HLS)’s black professors Thursday morning. But there are several aspects of the supposed “hate crime” that suggest it could be a big hoax. […]
While activists on Facebook and Twitter are quickly denouncing the tape as a sign of the hate that lurks beneath the surface at Harvard, the possibility must be considered that the hate crime is a hoax or false flag. Bogus hate crimes have occurred with some frequency on college campuses.
One particularly noteworthy red flag is that the black tape used to deface the portraits appears to be identical to tape that was recently used by activists affiliated with the Royall Must Fall group protesting against HLS’s current seal (which is taken from the coat of arms of the slaveholding family that endowed HLS’s first professorship).
…The Harvard Law Record’s write-up indicates the taped-over seal was noticed the same morning as the taped over faces, suggesting that the alleged hate criminal either retaliated extremely quickly, or else was responding to something so obscure it had gone unnoticed thus far.