Also at the meeting was Adam R. Russell-Taylor, the president of the Harvard chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Russell-Taylor is a first-year student at the Kennedy School of Government.
"I'm concerned that some motives behind the impeachment process are racially motivated," he said, qualifying his remark by saying he still does not know all of the facts.
Driskell said she had asked the NAACP to be at last night's meeting.
"I've contacted members of the NAACP," she said. "Neither John nor I have made any overt claims of racism."
While both Driskell and Burton are black, all of the council members who sponsored the bill to remove Burton from office are white.
Representatives who sponsored the bill to remove Burton described the suggestion that their behavior was racially motivated as "ridiculous."
"The petition to remove [Burton] was signed to investigate allegations of lying and stealing and cheating, not to investigate allegations of being black or white or Latino," said Todd E. Plants '01.
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