Bell Wanted Preferential Treatment, Not Equality

Big Government ^ | March 9, 2012 | Charles C. Johnson

[opentalk]

One of the more common spins by the mainstream media about the now-famous Derrick Bell video is that the rally was for more diversity on the Harvard Law campus. This is wrong.

In fact, Bell and Obama were demanding special treatment for Regina Austin, a radical black law professor with poor credentials—she lacked the usual Supreme Court clerkships or law-review appointments—necessary for the position. Bell and Obama demanded that Harvard violate its longstanding policy about not voting on tenure track positions to visiting professors.

Don’t take my word for it. Take Derrick Bell’s. He granted that Austin lacked the proper credentials in an interview with David Remnick, author of The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama, “I thought Regina was perfect,” Bell told Remnick. “ She was saying what needed to be said. And she was a lot more militant than I ever was.” (p. 213)

..Austin asserted that the black community should embrace the criminals in its midst as a form of resistance to white oppression. People of color should view “hustling” as a “good middle ground between straightness and more extreme forms of law breaking.” Examples of hustling include “clerks in stores [who] cut their friends a break on merchandise, and pilfering employees [who] spread their contraband around the neighborhood.”

...Like Bell and Wright, Austin shared a racist view of racial relations. Asked in a 1999 interview to explain her role as a legal scholar of critical race theory, Austin answered that it “should start with the premise that black people are at the center of the universe and go on from there.”

...Obama, meanwhile, compared Bell to Rosa Parks, because everyone, presumably, has a right to be a tenured professor at Harvard Law School, especially if they are black and share Bell’s prejudice masquerading as profundity

[maggief]

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.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,596202,00.html

‘Glenn Beck’: Who Is Charles Ogletree?

(Ogletree) edited the Black Panther newspaper. Here's a copy of it, The Real News. OK? He was an editor.

Ogletree also attended every single day of the trial of this woman. This woman is Angela Davis, OK? She was a Black Power activist.

She was also a communist. You might remember her name. She was fired from UCLA in 1969 after she admitted she was a communist.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/0311/Eric_Holder_Black_Panther_case_focus_demeans_my_people.html

March 01, 2011

Eric Holder: Black Panther case focus demeans ‘my people’

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

[opentalk]

Ogletree’s daughter Rashida was recently hired into Holder’s Justice Department

wow, feel sick, wish they would of covered that on Hannity. Media tries to spin his as past history.

thanks

[LucyT]

Bell Wanted Preferential Treatment, Not Equality

(Suprise, Suprise.)

One of the more common spins by the mainstream media about the now-famous Derrick Bell video is that the rally was for more diversity on the Harvard Law campus. This is wrong.

In fact, Bell and 0bama were demanding special treatment for..."

Article, then # 19 , and # 21.

[Thanks, anonymous.]

[stephenjohnbanker]

Obama in Russia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDx_OD50ia8

[Fred Nerks]

I think the title to that video is misleading,no one is refusing to shake hands, he’s simply making a gesture as part of introduction.

There’s enough REAL stuff to hang him on, imo.

[philman_36]

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All of this information that you and so many others have gathered in such a short amount of time is both staggering in its implications and breathtaking in its value.

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[philman_36]

...he’s simply making a gesture as part of introduction.
Agreed. Not a good video SJB.
Post a video showing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu entering the WH through a side door if you want to show a snub worth seeing.

[okie01]

We are too polite to laugh at these people.

We are too polite to laugh sneer at these people.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Yeah.....Obama treated Ben Net like dirt from day one. Ben has since reciprocated the hospitality : )