Marc Lamont Hill’s Overrated Black People List, Part 2: Melissa Harris-Lacewell

David Horowitz's NewsReal Blog ^ | October 12, 2009 | David Swindle

[HorowitzianConservative]

See Part 1 of NewsReal's ongoing series:

Marc Lamont Hill's Overrated Black People List: Michael Eric Dyson

In our continuing discussion of the damage done to the African-American community by affirmative action policies very rarely does one actually find actual admissions by an intellectual that they're overrated, that their achievement is inflated because of their race. It does happen sometimes, though.

From The Nation's The Notion group blog, Princeton professor and frequent cable news Obama booster Melissa Harris-Lacewell riffed on the harsh response she received from her fellow leftists for not happily going along with the President's Nobel Appeasement Prize

I criticized the idea of awarding a Nobel Peace Prize to a president whose short presidency has included drone attacks with devastating civilian causalities, the escalation of the war in Afghanistan, and a painfully slow response to the basic human rights issues facing LGBT communities. I respect the President's accomplishments in diplomacy but believed these issues were relevant to assessing his record on peace.

Translation: Obama has not toed the Left's surrender line enough to be worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize. That's a new one.

[Paleo Conservative]

Shouldn’t Marc Lamont make his own list?

[HorowitzianConservative]

We’re going to invite him to participate in ours.