Meet Derrick Bell
BuzzFeed earlier today posted video of a young Barack Obama speaking at a 1991 rally backing Professor Derrick Bell’s call for diversity on Harvard Law School’s tenured faculty, and Breitbart.com has promised more video on the theme. Here’s an introduction to Bell, a controversial academic figure who argued that questions or race and power should be central to the law. His criticism at times extended to other African-American academics, and remarked controversially at one point that “the ends of diversity are not served by persons who look black and think white.” Here are five videos of Bell, who died last October.
3. Derrick Bell says white people have a sense of entitlement about being white.
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- lchen12345 Meet Derrick Bell and thinks it’s Win
- dwaynep Meet Derrick Bell and thinks it’s Ew, OMG & Trashy
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lchen12345 a year agoImagine, a nuanced deep discussion of racism. How otherworldly. Obviously, this falls on many deaf ears on the right. The controversy is… that racism exist? That we should address it? There’s no endgame to the conversation? There’s no one correct answer?
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- mfprtoo Meet Derrick Bell and thinks it’s Win
- benr11 Meet Derrick Bell and thinks it’s Win
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Benjamin Sapiens a year agoTalking about the fact that racism exists in our society and discussing way to fix that problem is actually NOT AT ALL THE SAME THING AS RACISM. In fact, it’s pretty much the complete opposite of racism. The fact that some people are deranged enough to think that Professor Bell is racist only goes to prove his point about the prevalence of racism in America. If this guy was a race-baiter, than so was MLK.
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Quick Quip a year agoJust another race hustler. The shrill cry of “racism” and its corollary, “Anti-Racism” is code for ANTI-WHITE.
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paul katz a year ago
I posted this but for some reason it does no now appear. Re posting. The C-Span interview between Brian Lamb and Dr Thomas Sowell is instructive. The complete interview can be found by searching on the internet. Here is an excerpt…. LAMB: No. Basically, I mean, from the press coverage, you’ve seen, is he a hero to the …? SOWELL: Well, he’s looked at as an idealist who is self-sacrificing and so on. I suppose one could, if one wanted to look at it that way, have seen Hitler that way in his early days. It’s just a question of where that kind of idealism leads. He has launched a despicable attack on a young black professor at the law school who doesn’t go along with this. A young man named Randall Kennedy, who has written a very thoughtful, intelligent article last June in the Harvard Law Review, questioning some of the assumptions that people are making, people like Derrick Bell and doing it in a very gentlemanly as well as very logical way, empirical way, and that’s not what they want. They want the conclusion to be that — they want him to march in lock step and he won’t do it, and they’re doing their best to make life impossible for him….
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paul katz a year ago
The C-Span interview with Brian La,b and Thomas Sowell is instructive and can be found via searching. Here is an excerpt.. “LAMB: No. Basically, I mean, from the press coverage, you’ve seen, is he a hero to the …? SOWELL: Well, he’s looked at as an idealist who is self-sacrificing and so on. I suppose one could, if one wanted to look at it that way, have seen Hitler that way in his early days. It’s just a question of where that kind of idealism leads. He has launched a despicable attack on a young black professor at the law school who doesn’t go along with this. A young man named Randall Kennedy, who has written a very thoughtful, intelligent article last June in the Harvard Law Review, questioning some of the assumptions that people are making, people like Derrick Bell and doing it in a very gentlemanly as well as very logical way, empirical way, and that’s not what they want. They want the conclusion to be that — they want him to march in lock step and he won’t do it, and they’re doing their best to make life impossible for him.”……..
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