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Yale Law School and Why Van Jones went There
The American Thinker Blog ^ | September 05, 2009 | Clarice Feldman

Posted on 09/06/2009 1:09:04 PM PDT by Scanian

During the Anita Hill hearings after a series of implausible witnesses all of whom were black Yale law school graduates, Juan Williams wrote in the Washington Post that he could now understand the wisdom of the saying that Yale law school had ruined more good black minds than crack. I have found that to be an accurate observation and have always been grateful to Juan for having brought that to my attention.

Obama's communist "green czar" lays out why this is so:

"I had a professor who encouraged me to apply to Harvard and Yale [for law school], which was almost unheard of for students coming from the kind of public schools that I was coming from in the rural South. I was accepted to both places, and decided to go to Yale because Yale didn't have any grades and was smaller than Harvard. I figured, once I enroll I'm guaranteed to graduate, so I can just go and be a radical hellraiser student, and they can't do anything about it. Which is pretty much what happened."


TOPICS: Education; Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; ivyleague
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1 posted on 09/06/2009 1:09:04 PM PDT by Scanian
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To: Scanian

Quotas and him being a rabid lefty got him there.


2 posted on 09/06/2009 1:12:21 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life is tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Scanian
"I had a professor who encouraged me to apply to Harvard and Yale [for law school], which was almost unheard of for students coming from the kind of public schools that I was coming from in the rural South. I was accepted to both places, and decided to go to Yale because Yale didn't have any grades and was smaller than Harvard. I figured, once I enroll I'm guaranteed to graduate, so I can just go and be a radical hellraiser student, and they can't do anything about it. Which is pretty much what happened."

Says it all, doesn't it?

3 posted on 09/06/2009 1:13:03 PM PDT by WHBates
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To: imahawk
Same as Obama at Harvard.
4 posted on 09/06/2009 1:13:42 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Scanian
That may be true for black law students, but I can assure you that my daughter who graduated Yale Law going through Princeton earned her degrees.

She did however lose her affection for George W. Bush while at Yale, which troubled me at the time.

5 posted on 09/06/2009 1:14:11 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: Scanian; Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ..
The list, ping

Let me know if you'd like to be on or off the ping list

6 posted on 09/06/2009 1:17:20 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

Where’s the original source for the quote?

I really want to send to to a relative who’s a Yale law school alumni.


7 posted on 09/06/2009 1:27:42 PM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark
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To: Scanian

It appears that Jones has never passed a bar exam. Guess this explains why.


8 posted on 09/06/2009 1:32:24 PM PDT by Rum Tum Tugger
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To: PittsburghAfterDark
http://www.collagefoundation.org/people/people-vanjones.html

-also posted at my website (nachumlist.com)

9 posted on 09/06/2009 1:35:20 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Rum Tum Tugger
It appears that Jones has never passed a bar exam. Guess this explains why.

I doubt the ignoramus ever passed any class in his life.

10 posted on 09/06/2009 1:36:16 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Scanian

Of course, Clarice could do herself a favor and begin her piece with a grammatically correct sentence.


11 posted on 09/06/2009 1:38:22 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard

ROFLMAO!!! Thanks for the chuckle. Could not have said it better.


12 posted on 09/06/2009 2:03:01 PM PDT by Orange1998
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To: Lancey Howard

He stated he went to Yale because they didn’t have grades, meaning there were pass or fail, kind of like getting “present” for just being in class, then handed a degree he did not earn. No wonder he had to work for rabble rouser non-profits, he would not have gotten hired anywhere else.


13 posted on 09/06/2009 2:03:56 PM PDT by Semperfiwife (Stupid is as stupid does, especially in Washington)
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To: Scanian
"I had a professor who encouraged me to apply to Harvard and Yale [for law school], which was almost unheard of for students coming from the kind of public schools that I was coming from in the rural South. I was accepted to both places, and decided to go to Yale because Yale didn't have any grades and was smaller than Harvard. I figured, once I enroll I'm guaranteed to graduate, so I can just go and be a radical hellraiser student, and they can't do anything about it. Which is pretty much what happened."

You're doing a great job at living up to negative stereotyping of blacks, but that's OK. Stereotypes always have a basis in reality. It's great to see your fall, you useless, unqualified affirmative action phoney.

14 posted on 09/06/2009 2:08:10 PM PDT by Kenton
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To: DCPatriot

That’s odd, considering the Bushes are like royalty at Yale. I believe there were, what 7 different Bush family members in Skull and Bones?


15 posted on 09/06/2009 2:39:24 PM PDT by RAO1125 (Neoconservatism:Failed. Socialism:Failing (again). Next up: Libertarianism)
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To: RAO1125
That’s odd, considering the Bushes are like royalty at Yale. I believe there were, what 7 different Bush family members in Skull and Bones?

Guess that just goes to show you how completely left-wing that institution has become, hmmmm?

16 posted on 09/06/2009 3:48:36 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Democrat - The new Party of National Socialism. Pelosi and Kosmas - founding members.)
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To: RAO1125

It’s affirmative action, my friend. I used to know some black graduates of prestigious law schools who didn’t know anything about law. Or, seemingly, much of anything else.


17 posted on 09/06/2009 3:50:32 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Yes, we disagree - no, we won't shut up - no, we won't quit.)
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To: popdonnelly

I should add, though, that I’ve known some black lawyers who were first rate.


18 posted on 09/06/2009 3:51:54 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Yes, we disagree - no, we won't shut up - no, we won't quit.)
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To: Scanian

If Van Jones wasn’t Black, you’d never have heard of him, just like Obama.


19 posted on 09/06/2009 3:52:10 PM PDT by blam
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To: Scanian
Naw, he never passed the bar. Here is his bio. Notice that he and Barack are two peas in a pod. Strange, isn't it, that no mention has been made so far of Obama's knowledge of Van Jones' activities before Obama hired him? Of course he knew. Just as he knew the racist his preacher Rev Jeremiah Wright was when he went to that church for 20 years.

Van Jones Bio:

Van Jones (Hired at Berkeley Spring 2004)

Founder and National Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, a member of the Social Venture Network's Membership Committee and a 2002 recipient of the World Economic Forum's "Global Leader of Tomorrow" Award. Van graduated in 1990 from the University of Tennessee at Martin with a B.S. in journalism and political science.

After graduating from law school in 1993, he moved to San Francisco where he joined the legal staff of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights as its Thurgood Marshall Law Fellow and worked on environmental racism, employment, educational equity and homelessness issues. In January 1995 Van founded Bay Area PoliceWatch, northern California 's first and only police misconduct legal referral panel, which evolved into the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights (EBC) in 1996.

Since 1995 Van has received a number of awards and honors recognizing his contributions in the arenas of police reform and human rights. He received the Reebok International Human Rights Award in 1998 and the Rockefeller Foundation named him a Next Generation Leadership Fellow (1997-99).

Columbia University 's Center for the Study of Human Rights named Van the 1998 Whitney M. Young Distinguished Lecturer. The San Francisco Bay Guardian named him a "Local Hero" in 1998. Mother Jones magazine featured him as a "Hellraiser" in fall 2000, citing his "efforts to mitigate police violence." Van was also awarded an Echoing Green Foundation fellowship (1994-1998) to support the development of EBC.

20 posted on 09/06/2009 4:04:16 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Democrat - The new Party of National Socialism. Pelosi and Kosmas - founding members.)
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