Posted on 07/24/2009 10:13:21 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
JERUSALEM – The lawyer representing Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Harvard professor at the center of a national race controversy, was a mentor of both Barack and Michelle Obama and served on the president's black advisory council.
Charles Ogletree Jr., himself a Harvard University professor, is closely linked to the Black Panthers and to radical black ideology. He is a key member of the reparations movement and once pursued the possibility of bringing a class action lawsuit to win reparations for descendants of African slaves.
"I met Barack when he arrived at Harvard Law School in fall of 1988. He was quiet and unassuming, but had an incredibly sharp mind and a thirst for knowledge," Ogletree said in an interview last year with Essence Magazine.
"Even then I saw his ability to quickly grasp the most complicated legal issues and sort them out in a clear, concise fashion," said Ogletree.
Ogletree explained Obama was a regular participant in an after-class activity the Harvard professor created called the Saturday School Program – a series of workshops and meetings held Saturday mornings designed to expose minority students to issues in the study of law.
Ogletree also told Essence that he mentored Michelle Obama when she enrolled at Harvard three years before her future husband. Ogletree said he gave Michelle career advice.
"I met Michelle when she started her legal career here at Harvard in the fall of 1985, and I was able to watch her develop into a very strong and powerful student leader. She was an active member of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, where she served as a student attorney for indigent clients who had civil cases and needed legal help" Ogletree related.
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I’m anxiously awaiting the release of the audio tapes!
??? What's that?
Reparations?
Here ya go.
A million bucks and a one-way ticket to the African utopia of your choice. Surrender your US passport and citizenship when you obtain your boarding pass.
Oh, and when you get back to Africa, you should try suing the people there for rounding up your ancestors and selling them into slavery. It wasn’t white people who raided the villages, killing the weak, the sick, the elderly, and the very young, taking only the most healthy captive.
Yes the sharpest mind since Issac Newton (extreme sarcasm).
In 2000, Ogletree joined the Reparations Coordinating Committee, serving as the group’s co-chair. The committee pursued a lawsuit to win reparations for descendants of African slaves. The committee was convened by the TransAfrica Forum, a partner organization of the leftist Institute for Policy Studies.
Race warlords all....
It would have been a much better if slavery had never existed, and Africans could have stayed in their homeland to be happy and prosper 200+ years ago. Much of this nonsense wouldn’t be happening now.
I am sure many would love to be in Rwanda, Ethiopia, Sudan....killing fields all... not to mention brutalizing, raping, and mutilating women...
Not, you will note, "a very strong and powerful student." I won-d-d-d-d-d-d-er what her transcript looks like.
I’m supposed to believe it’s mere coincidence that a few days after Ogletree’s client got in this mess, mutual friend Obama just happened to weigh in on the matter at a news conference? That Axelrod didn’t arrange for good buddy Lynn Sweet to ask the question?
Maybe I’m supposed to believe it, but it sure ain’t easy.
"Charles Ogletree Jr., himself a Harvard University professor, is closely linked to the Black Panthers and to radical black ideology. He is a key member of the reparations movement and once pursued the possibility of bringing a class action lawsuit to win reparations for descendants of African slaves."
"Ogletree is closely linked to radical black activism. As a student in 1970 at Stanford University near San Francisco, a center of black radicalism at the time, Ogletree organizing an Afrocentric dormitory. He edited a campus Black Panther newspaper called The Real News and traveled to Africa and Cuba as part of student activist groups. Ogletree attended nearly every day of the trial of Black Power activist and communist Angela Davis."
Perhaps the entire incident was a set up?
There is NO evidence at all of O’s incredibly sharp mind.
Is all this dithering and incompetence a result of a brain on drugs? One does wonder, does one not?
ETL thought you might be interested in April’s comment.
Wonder if Ogletree advised Obama that he did not have to pay the parking tickets the same police force issued him (sometimes two in the same day) when he was a student.
LOL.
Gates, you've hitched your wagon to a loser, boy.
I think these two Harvard hobos are about to be schooled.
Let me see; he probably grasped the following "legal" principles.
The class struggle is a political struggle.
From each according to his ability; to each according to his needs.
The proletariat will rise up and seize the means of production (unless we take their guns away first).
Under a dictatorship of the proletariat, the state will wither away.
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