At Harvard Law, he got to be the editor of the Law Review by being black, er, half-black, without any academic scrivenings whatsoever.
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He was not a law school editor he was President of the law review, an affirmative action position.
Read the HLR criteria for membership and weep.
https://harvardlawreview.org/about/
Harvard’s law review acceptance process includes 18 positions for those who write a maximum 150 word statement of how entitled they should be because of their unique background including ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.... What a friggin’ joke! How much did you want to bet that Barry wrote a compelling ditty about being a poor, gay Kenyan to win their hearts.
My Washington DC law school, at about the same time, had nothing of the sort. In fact, I was reviled on campus for starting a chapter of the Christian Legal Society and was grudgingly only made a member of the law review because of their grade rules. The student with the top grades after the first year was given a mandatory law review position at the start of year two. Let’s just say that the editorial board was none too happy to see me.