In 1988 Michelle Robinson [Obama] wrote an essay entitled “Minority and Women Law Professors: A Comparison of Teaching Styles” for the newsletter of Harvard’s Black Law Students Association. Her contention? Harvard was perpetuating “racist and sexist stereotypes” by intentionally not hiring minority and female law professors on the basis of their sex or skin color.
Another fan of Critical Race Theory!
The future first lady justified her demands for more black and female law school faculty by attacking the “traditional model,” in which law students were educated through the Socratic method.
She also opposed the traditional meritocratic hiring principle, where professors with better legal pedigrees were more often hired, arguing that it limited the success of women and blacks.
“The faculty’s decision to distrust and ignore non-traditional qualities in choosing and tenuring law professors merely reinforces racist and sexist stereotypes,” Mrs. Obama wrote, ”which, in turn, serve to legitimize students’ tendencies to distrust certain types of teaching that do not resemble the traditional images.”
In particular, she condemned the Harvard law professor ideal made famous in John Osborn’s 1970 book “The Paper Chase” and Scott Turow’s 1977 autobiographical novel “One-L,” for promoting the view that law school faculty should be “cold, callous, domineering, old, white men who took pleasure in engaging their students in humiliating and often brutal discourse.” She faulted her fellow students for being “racist” and “sexist” and buying into that particular “image” of a proper law school education.
Instead, she praised the teaching of several professors who didn’t use the Socratic method, including the far-left academics Martha Minow and Charles Ogletree. Minow’s father, Newton Minow, later recruited Michelle and Barack Obama to Sidley Austin, the Chicago law firm where the two met. Ogletree, who mentored both Michelle and Barack at Harvard, admitted during the 2008 election that he had concealed a videotape of Obama praising “critical race theory” architect Derrick Bell.
Michelle also gushed praise for critical race theory itself — the view that law is an instrument of the powerful against the powerless, rather than an effort to seek justice.
Oh, hell no. Wouldn’t want people hired based on what they know and what they have achieved. Best to hire based on skin color.
And before anyone stones me, yes – there was a sorely needed ‘catch up’ period. But it’s 2012, not 1964.
As a parent spending a good bit of cash on Harvard, would you want someone qualified or a ‘token’ who was not as qualified?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t the job of the still functioning EEOC (‘diversity’ regardless of merit) to ensure a proper racial head count?
More, including a video of the first lady doing her thing at Harvard, at Just Piper.
you are correct – this subject is one I am very familiar with being given a Token job with South Western Bell /ATT in 1975 along with the 33 1/3% cut in pay ($100 per week)that went along with it – I sat behind a desk demoted to a clerks job due to an on-the-job accident while Women & Blacks were given the equivalent of the job taken away from me due to their gender or color –I was denied the opportunity over & over to get back what I had taken away – Not only were people given jobs they could not do, white males were demoted to lower jobs so they could be counted as a Token also for any reason the employer could find – This was mandated by the Feral Government – EEOC does stand for “Eventual Elimination of Caucasians” – I have personally watched these ungrateful people given jobs & opportunities they were both unqualified for and did not deserve – No one was allowed to wake them up or discipline them for anything they did, or did not due, while we were written up for anything & everything – That time was the beginning of the end for this country – I was not into politics and did not know the difference in the Political party’s – I do now it was very hard for a white male to get ahead in back then – You even had to fight the government for months to get a $25K VA Loan for a home that was cheaper than the rent you were currently paying – But the Cubans across the street from you had no trouble getting that 4% Government Mortgage, yours was 8%, or that monthly government check that had red writing on the envelope that looked just like the one your tax refund came in, or the teenage girl went to the same collage for free that you had to pay for as long as she did not become a US Citizen – Yes the 70’s & 80’s were the glory days down here in South Florida as long as you not a white male – Am I bitter, not really, I just had to worked harder to get past it – It made me a better person –
But but but, Harvard did hire a minority law prof, that famed blonde, blue-eyed Cherokee, Warren!
I can’t believe she still perpetuates that myth!
According to wikipedia, Harvard touted Warren as a minority.
“…the Boston Herald reported that in the 1990s Harvard Law School had, in response to criticisms about the lack of faculty diversity, publicized Warren’s law directory entries from 1986 to 1995, which listed her background as Native American ancestry. The Boston Globe noted that a 1998 article in the Harvard Crimson said, “Harvard Law School currently has only one tenured minority woman, Gottlieb Professor of Law Elizabeth Warren, who is Native American”
Her family “talked about” their Indian ancestors. Well, Mike’s family talks about theirs and my Mom talked about hers. Neither thought to use it… probably because they can’t prove the connection.
Can Warren?
Back when I was in law school, the issue of diversity and affirmative action admissions was in the news. There was a study done and what they found was that people who were admitted based on color or ethnicity did not do well in school and generally failed the bar exam. Specifically, black students admitted because they were black were unprepared and unable to do adequate work.
That’s what affirmative action does.
That’s to be expected, I guess.
Besides my mom’s family was Irish. She used to say the Irish were the n*&*ers of Europe.
And then there’s all those goddamn Jews they let in. That really lowered the bar. No pun intended!
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/harvard.html
Oh, my. We’re full of nasty little secrets, aren’t we? A Jewish quota! Now where have we heard that before?
Folly, you are absolutely correct, they were not able to do the work – They did not have the drive to want to learn the job and since they were a part of the % required under Federal Law they would not/could not be fired – I fought it for 4 1/2 years than took another cut in pay to save my mentality since it was eating alive from within – other than leaving 1 1/2 years before vested retirement it was the right choice – the others like me never were able to get their jobs back or advance in the company – It was Federally mandated reverse discrimination with a twist – People were demoted to fill the quotas and white males were not hirable at any large corporations except for jobs that were lower paying female jobs – That is where the male airline stewards came from as an example – It took me 10 years and starting my own bussiness to get back to the same pay that was taken away from me -
My brother applied for a position as a state historian for the State of Texas. He was passed over for a minority with less qualifications.
That’s just bullshit.
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