The Racist Ravings of Derrick Bell [the truth says Obama]

http://bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view.bg?articleid=1409325&position=4

Ogletree: I was joking about Obama video clip

By Chris Cassidy
Friday, March 9, 2012 - Updated 6 hours ago

Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree told the Herald he was just kidding when he suggested that a decades-old clip of a young Barack Obama praising and embracing controversial Professor Derrick Bell was kept hidden from voters during the 2008 campaign.

“It was a big joke,” Ogletree said. “If you watch the tape, the audience is laughing when I’m laughing.”

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wiki:

Ogletree taught both Barack and Michelle Obama at Harvard; he has remained close to Barack Obama throughout his political career.[5] He appeared briefly on the joint Daily Show-Colbert Report election night coverage of the 2008 presidential election, making a few remarks about his personal knowledge of the Obamas.

Ogletree has written opinion pieces on the state of race in the United States for major publications.[6] Ogletree also served as the moderator for a panel discussion on civil rights in baseball on March 28, 2008 that accompanied the second annual Major League Baseball civil rights exhibition game the following day between the New York Mets and the Chicago White Sox.[7]

On July 21, 2009, Ogletree issued a statement in response to the arrest of his Harvard colleague and client, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., whose arrest at his own home became a major news story about the nexus of politics, police power, and race that summer.[8] Professor Ogletree later wrote a book about the events entitled The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in America.

After the September 2009 death of Senator Ted Kennedy, Ogletree’s name was suggested as one of the possible appointees to Kennedy’s seat as a “placeholder” until a special election could be held. ...

http://patdollard.com/2012/03/flashback-to-last-marthas-vineyard-vacation-obama-attends-cocktail-party-at-home-of-wealthy-harvard-militant-marxist-mentorblack-panther/

Originally posted on August 20, 2011, featuring an AP story about Obama’s Martha Vineyard vacation, which he was still in the middle of.

Charles Ogletree was a black panther. He is also the lawyer of Henry Louis Gates, the racist Harvard professor whose racism caused the beer summit. Ogletree’s daughter Rashida was recently hired into Holder’s Justice Department as a lawyer. Ogletree is still a militant leftist and is still called on by the Obamas for advice.

OAK BLUFFS, Mass. (AP) — President Barack Obama put in a brief appearance Saturday at the home of his friend and one-time teacher, Harvard Law School professor Charles Ogletree, as he continued his Martha’s Vineyard vacation.

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Also on Ogletree:

New White House Visitor Database: Professor Ogletree has Visited 14 Times

Reparations, A Fundamental Issue Of Social Justice (Ogletree); black-collegian.com ^ | 3/9/12 | Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.

Kagan, Obama, and the Harvard Legacy of Literary Fraud

Tribe's transgression had come to light only after he had publicly defended his colleague Ogletree, who just three weeks earlier had publicly apologized for the unauthorized heist of verbiage from Yale scholar Jack Balkin's book, What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said, and the stashing of it, nearly word-for-word, in his own book, All Deliberate Speed.

Appalled by Tribe's hypocrisy, an anonymous tipster alerted conservative scholar Joseph Bottum, who penned a damning 5,000 word article for The Weekly Standard, which revealed the extent of Tribe's theft and resulted in Tribe's half-hearted mea culpa.

In reviewing the case, Kagan and then Harvard President Larry Summers faced an obvious challenge: Ogletree was a black star on a faculty often criticized for being overly white; even more problematic, Tribe was the superstar of the judicial left.

Ogletree himself stayed out of trouble. In 1970, after high school, Ogletree enrolled in Stanford University outside San Francisco. His dormitory marked the first time he had ever had his own room. At college, Ogletree became dismayed by the elitism of the institution. Fortunately, he was also quite near the epicenter of the Black Power movement that had coalesced around San Francisco, the city of Oakland, and the University of California at Berkeley at that point in history. Ogletree became a campus radical, organizing an Afrocentric (though still integrated) dormitory, where he met his future wife, Pamela Barnes. He edited a campus Black Panther newspaper called The Real News and traveled to Africa and Cuba as part of student activist groups.

Ogletree’s first intensive experience in the courtroom sparked his intent to pursue trial law as a career. He attended nearly every day of the trial of Black Power activist and Communist Angela Davis. Some of parts of the Davis trial were tedious, Ogletree recalled in I've Known Rivers, but “the process and strategies were fascinating. I sat there wondering how they were going to tie all this together.” After graduating with a bachelor's degree in political science from Stanford in 1974, Ogletree stayed on a year to earn a master's degree. At the urging of his soon-to-be wife, he applied to Harvard Law School; the newlyweds moved to the Boston area upon his acceptance and enrollment in the fall of 1975. From the start, Ogletree recalled, he felt unease in the markedly different, monied East Coast enclave. Furthermore, the city was then in the middle of a vicious battle over busing that pitted its ethnic-American communities against the African-American populace. Academia itself was also especially tedious, and at one point he nearly quit the prestigious School of Law. “At Harvard the pressure was on, participation was mandatory, there was always a lot of competition and tension in the air,” Ogletree recalled in I've Known Rivers. He survived by closely allying himself with other African-American students and continued his political activism, even becoming national president of the Black Law Students Association.

Read more: Ogletree Charles Jr. Biography - Selected writings - Law, School, American, and African - JRank Articles http://biography.jrank.org/pages/2366/Ogletree-Jr-Charles.html#ixzz1ofJ7lITE

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If anyone asked Professor Charles Ogletree Jr. 20 years ago which member of the Obama family would wind up in national politics, he would have picked Michelle.

Ogletree first met Michelle Obama ’88 in the fall of 1985 when both arrived at Harvard Law School for the first time, she as a student and he as a visiting professor. As a student in his trial advocacy workshop, Ogletree says her commitment to public service was already clear.

“She made a commitment to her father, who did not go to college, that she would pursue her talents to help her community,” says Ogletree.

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HT: Weaselzippers

The home of Professor Charles Ogletree, a friend and former law school professor of President Barack Obama, is visible during a social event with the president in attendance in Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011.

From your post:

“He edited a campus Black Panther newspaper called The Real News and traveled to Africa and Cuba as part of student activist groups.

Ogletree’s first intensive experience in the courtroom sparked his intent to pursue trial law as a career. He attended nearly every day of the trial of Black Power activist and Communist Angela Davis. “
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Protecting former Panthers

On December 8 2005, former Black Panther Party members, John L. Bowman, Hank Jones and Ray Boudreaux held a meeting at the Washington, DC office of Trans-Africa Forum. They were complaining about re-newed police investigations of a 1971 police killing in San Francisco that they had been accused of.

They had been indicted at the time by a grand jury, but were released when the court rendered a decision stating the methods used to obtain information were illegal.

The former Panthers were flanked by Danny Glover, “reparations” activist Ron Daniels, Democratic Socialists of America member Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Charles Ogletree.

Charles Ogletree, said that the community should protect the rights of the former Panthers with their lives[8].

“These gentlemen, Ray Boudreaux, Hank Jones and others have been victims of the most vicious forms of American terrorism and torture...It takes a village to protect its elders. We tell them today, through our presence here and through our commitment that we will provide a protective blanket over them. They will not come in this village and take these elders, except over our dead bodies.”

http://www.keywiki.org/index.php/Charles_Ogletree

Hard-pressed to see how one edits a Black Panther newspaper without being a Black Panther, yet I haven't seen that membership ascribed to Ogletree anywhere in the MSM.

Why Did Obama Free a Black Liberation Army Member? [Marilyn Buck]

Consider Jill Elijah. She writes on behalf of Buck’s release that “a warm nurturing living arrangement is available to Ms. Buck in my home located in Brooklyn. . . . I and my family look forward to her joining our home.” The letterhead? Harvard Law School, where Elijah runs the criminal justice institute. Also on the letterhead in the Elijah letter to the Justice Department is Charles Ogletree, President Obama’s dear friend and mentor. Having Ogletree’s name associated with such a request was like mailing Buck the keys to her jail cell. Ogletree’s daughter Rashida was recently hired into Holder’s Justice Department as a lawyer.
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March 9, 2012 Shocking new documents detail DOJ’s reasons for releasing Marxist bomber

Another thing Adams points to with Elijah’s letters is that they’re written on Harvard letterhead. One of President Obama’s law school professors, Harvard Director Emeritus Charles Ogletree, appears on the letterhead. Adams said Ogletree has lots of pull with the president.

“The letters from Harvard with Charles Ogletree in the letterhead are telling,” Adams said. “Ogletree is a personal friend of President Obama and having his name on a letter seeking Buck’s release is like sending Buck the keys to open her jail cell.”

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Obama stayed with Ogletree in Aug 2004, right after his 2004 DNC speech

Source

Now I understand the timing and locale for Obama’s summer vacations.

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Black intellectuals focus on condition of African-Americans Discussion sends mixed message to Clinton about race relations, his initiative
The Dallas Morning News - Sunday, August 31, 1997
Author: New York Times News Service
EDGARTOWN, Mass. - The former Black Panther wondered why her son, a college graduate, was working in a supermarket. A Supreme Court justice’s one-time accuser wondered why she saw so many Confederate flags in Oklahoma. And a law professor wondered how to keep people from withdrawing to islands - metaphorical ones - when faced with the subject of race.

These concerns were voiced within the white clapboard walls of the Old Whaling Church on Friday night as 10 of the United States’ foremost black intellectuals led a sometimes measured and sometimes passionate, humorous or prickly discussion over whether and how to hold a national conversation about race.

The participants included Kathleen Cleaver, the former Black Panther ; Anita Hill, whose testimony during the 1991 Supreme Court nomination hearings of Clarence Thomas started a national debate over sexual harassment; and Patricia Williams, an author and law professor at Columbia University.

But the man who is trying to lead that conversation during the next year, President Clinton, did not attend. His aides said that he was concerned about disrupting both the event and his three-week vacation on Martha’s Vineyard.

“I’m not concerned that he’s not here,” professor Charles Ogletree of Harvard Law School said. “I’m concerned if he’s not hearing. “ But if Mr. Clinton eventually listens to the tape of the evening’s debate that his aides said he would receive, he will hear a decidedly mixed message - about his race initiative, about the state of black-white relations, and about the economic and political condition of black Americans.

And that outcome clearly delighted the moderator, Henry Louis Gates Jr., the chairman of the Afro-American studies department at Harvard and director of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, which organized the event, as well as similar ones in past years. Mr. Gates said that the three-hour discussion underscored the “multiplicity of opinion within one little section of the American mosaic. “ Martha’s Vineyard is the setting for the annual panels, which have dealt before with subjects such as affirmative action, in part because of the island’s history as an integrated resort, and in part because so many potential panelists unwind there. (In introducing Mr. Ogletree , Mr. Gates said, “He is also, I understand, a master fisherman in these waters. “) More than 400 people, including many celebrities, paid $50 to attend.

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What’s up with Obama secrecy? // Pullout quote pullout quote pullout qoute pullout quote.
Chicago Sun-Times (IL) - Thursday, September 9, 2004
Author: Lynn Sweet
Democratic Senate candidate Barack Obama is running two campaigns.

One you see.

One you don’t.

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While the vast majority of Obama’s campaign cash comes from Illinois, Obama has raised a significant amount of money — 24 percent of his cash — from out-of-state donations. Obama, for example, does not want you to know that last month he collected money at a cocktail fund-raiser in the town of Chilmark, on Martha’s Vineyard , the famous vacation island off Massachusetts’ Cape Cod. The trip seemed very worthwhile. Obama combined it with an appearance on a panel to discuss the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision to desegregate schools in the country, moderated by Harvard Law School professor Charles Ogletree .

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Rashida Ogletree is today a trial attorney in the “special litigation section” of the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department.

Law license, Wash, DC, 2007
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"For me his [Derrick Bell] loss is personally devastating. He started out as an inspiring teacher and mentor who became a close and beloved friend.

I was particularly thrilled that he taught my daughter, Rashida Ogletree George, when she was a student at NYU Law School and a teaching assistant for Bell. "

Derrick Bell: Losing a champion for equality by Charles J. Ogletree Jr.

http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=Rashida+Ogletree&d=4792230497028058&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=5239f04b,b04f3e7d

Rashida J Ogletree – Department of Justice
Rashida J Ogletree (GS 15) is an employee working for the Department of Justice / Offices of Boards and Divisions in Washington, DC. In the fiscal year 2010, this employee received a base salary of $123,758.

Salary for Rashida J Ogletree
Base Salary $123,758
Bonus $0
Pay Grade GS 15
Position General Attorney
Series 0905
Department/Agency Department of Justice / Offices of Boards and Divisions
Location Washington, DC

hmmm....

Vernon Jordan, also

"Not all blacks stay in Oak Bluffs; Vernon Jordan lives about fifteen miles away, in Chilmark. "

Black and White on Martha’s Vineyard
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Obama supporter

John Bryan, the former chairman of Sara Lee, introduced Obama to Vernon Jordan, Democratic power broker in 2004. Jordan promptly staged a fundraiser for Obama at his Washington home---the first in that city[12].

KeyWiki
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Aug 2011:

Ogletree one day earlier co-hosted a Democratic fundraiser – billed as "Voices for Obama" – at Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs, where Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz gave the keynote address.

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Aug 2009

The White House says President Obama doesn't plan to attend a pair of Martha's Vineyard fundraisers Thursday night despite the fact he's on the small island for the first night of 10-day his family vacation.

Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., is headlining the fundraisers for the Obama Victory Fund. Tickets to the fundraisers range in price from $100 to $1000.

Obama to Skip Martha's Vineyard Fundraiser with Wasserman-Schultz
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Obama's trip comes at a time when his hope of overhauling the nation's health care system hangs in the balance. Influential Republicans in Congress, such as Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, have called for a more limited fix. Liberal groups such as MoveOn.org are trying to stop the White House from giving up on a "public option," a government-run health plan that would compete with those of private insurers.

In a sign that the debate is shadowing Obama even in liberal Massachusetts, a full-page ad in Friday's Vineyard Gazette greeted him with the warning: "Health care legislation without a public option is not health care reform." It was paid for by the Martha's Vineyard Ad-Hoc Coalition for Genuine Health Care Reform.

Source

It is next to impossible to find information on Rashida Ogletree. I was curious who she married.

Finally, I found the following (but not an answer to my question):

Rashida Ogletree: The daughter of Obama pal and Harvard Law professor Charles Ogletree, Ms. Ogletree joined the Section after working as a staff attorney at the District of Columbia Public Defender’s Office.

Before that, she had interned at the Legal Action Center [26], which describes itself as “the only non-profit law and policy organization in the United States whose sole mission is to fight discrimination against people with histories of addiction, HIV/AIDS, or criminal records, and to advocate for sound public policies in these areas.”

She also participated in the Brennan Center for Public Policy Advocacy Clinic, where she worked on efforts to give voting rights to convicted felons.

Leaving no activist stone unturned, she preceded those activities with internships at the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem and the EEOC, as well as a gig as the Education and Enforcement Coordinator for the Fair Housing Center of Greater Boston.

And to top it all off, she served as an editor of the “progressive” Review of Law and Social Change at NYU Law School.

Every Single One: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder's Special Litigation Section [Aug 2011]

BookMark

"Every race or nationality has an inherent bias for their own...That's just human nature."

If that were true, McCain would have won. Think before you spout... it'll save you from embarrassing moments like this one.

Think before you spout... it'll save you from embarrassing moments like this one

We're talking about race and nationalities, not presidential elections on this particular thread. Take your head out of your ass before you suffocate..........

No, my comment to which you replied with your completely incorrect generalization referred specifically to people who would elect a person president for no reason other than the color of his skin.

So, we now know that you are stupid, and profane, and a liar.

Nice. You're batting a thousand, douchebag.