Ever Wonder How Obama Became President of the Harvard Law Review?

NYT ^ | February 6, 1990 | FOX BUTTERFIELD

[aquila48]

The Harvard Law Review, generally considered the most prestigious in the country, elected the first black president in its 104-year history today. The job is considered the highest student position at Harvard Law School. The new president of the Review is Barack Obama, a 28-year-old graduate of Columbia University who spent four years heading a community development program for poor blacks on Chicago's South Side before enrolling in law school. His late father, Barack Obama, was a finance minister in Kenya and his mother, Ann Dunham, is an American anthropologist now doing fieldwork in Indonesia. Mr. Obama was born in Hawaii. ''The fact that I've been elected shows a lot of progress,'' Mr. Obama said today in an interview. ''It's encouraging.

[mmanager]

This guy has never earned anything in his life. He and Michelle have rode the color of their skin their entire life. Yet Clarence Thomas gets grilled for truly working to get where he is. Thomas was not elected to the supreme court for the color of his skin. Everything in the O’s life has been color.

[StonyBurk]

Oh but the New Yorkie said it was a relatively new system where a “special” writing competition “ was the deciding factor. Paper made no mention of any Black Panthers at the doors to the chamber—nor did it give details of the special
writing competitions charter-if any existed. I must conclude
you are ground Zero right on target with your assessment.

[kittymyrib]

The article fails to mention that both this parents were Communists. Had it been noted, that pedigree would have qualified him for the Harvard Law Review.

[BunnySlippers]

You changed the title a lot.

[Thermalseeker]

The position used to be based on merit, but has since become another affirmative action post.

The Ivy League schools are the most overrated colleges in the USA. One need only examine the mess that Ivy League graduates have made of our country in the leadership positions in our own gubmint that they have held. Having Ivy League credentials should be an immediate disqualification for holding public office, IMHO......

[flowerplough]

clones of him and clones of his wife ascend the same way.

Powell? Rice? Thomas? Gonzalez?

“If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept,” Ferraro said.

[The_Media_never_lie]

What kind of “field work” was his mom doing in Indonesia?

[Captain Jack Aubrey]

Obama was the first white born in Hawaii to be president of Harvard Law Review.

[jersey117]

Excellent research. This one’s a keeper. Bookmarking....

[TangoLimaSierra]

I think there are a number of student editors, but one president. Until Obama's selection, the president was the one with the most impressive record. He had no publications except perhaps one very minor item, and apparently didn't do much work as president--would stop by from time to time but let the #2 guy do the real work.

Wish someone would find the guy who was passed over as president and ask how he felt about it.

[PIF]

just ->save as ->web page complete ->make archive and distribte. Much easier.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

When you look back at this whole thing, it is easy to see a "third hand" in the works ... guiding, changing, clearing the way ... Never "labeled" never "named" ... but it is there. Sort of like the effects of a black hole, you can't see it, but you know it is there because of the "reactions" of things near it. It's been a long and well-planned journey for "whatever" is behind the Obama phenomenon. Amazing that they pulled it off. (This article was archived at The Patriot's Flag - Eligibility & Credibility). Good catch, thank you.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

When you look back at this whole thing, it is easy to see a "third hand" in the works ... guiding, changing, clearing the way ... Never "labeled" never "named" ... but it is there. Sort of like the effects of a black hole, you can't see it, but you know it is there because of the "reactions" of things near it. It's been a long and well-planned journey for "whatever" is behind the Obama phenomenon. Amazing that they pulled it off. (This article was archived at The Patriot's Flag - Eligibility & Credibility). Good catch, thank you.

[Beckwith]

It’s been here for over two years:

http://theobamafile.com/ObamaEducation.htm#HarvardLawReview

And it ain’t going anywhere.

[altura]

bump

[Beckwith]

Ann Dunham, is an American anthropologist now doing fieldwork in Indonesia.

More OBullshit!

Stanley Ann Dunham had a 15-year career in international banking and rural development that took her to Ghana, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Nepal and Bangladesh.

But being a tool of "fat-cat bankers" doesn't fit the Obama narrative.

[sbMKE]

Miami Herald, The (FL) - April 18, 1990

LAW REVIEW’S FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT AIMS TO HELP POOR
His boyhood friends in Indonesia were street peddlers, and his grandmother still lives in a mud-walled house in Kenya. But Barack Obama is another world away, presiding over the Harvard Law Review as the first black president in the prestigious journal’s 103-year history.The charismatic 28-year-old, ensconced in the halls where tradition reigns, is taking aim at another custom: Obama’s sights are set on the South Side of Chicago, not on a U.S. Supreme Court...

Boston Globe - February 15, 1990

A LAW REVIEW BREAKTHROUGH
Barack Obama became the first black president of the influential Harvard Law Review last week, after a marathon 17-hour selection process that pitted him against 18 other candidates. But he says he felt the full significance of the honor only after a rival candidate, also black, embraced him.”He held onto me for a long time,”said Obama, 28, a second-year student at Harvard Law School. “It was an important moment for me, because with that embrace I...

The Washington Times - April 16, 1990

Law Review editor wants to help poor
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - His boyhood friends in Indonesia were street peddlers, and his grandmother still lives in a mud-walled house in Kenya. But Barack Obama is another world away, presiding over the Harvard Law Review as the first black president in the prestigious journal’s 103-year history.

Worcester Telegram &Gazette (MA) - February 6, 1990

FIRST BLACK ELECTED TO HEAD LAW REVIEW
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - The Harvard Law Review has elected its first black president at Harvard Law School, a move the new president said shows progress but should not be taken a sign that social barriers have been broken.”I wouldn’t want people to see my election as a symbol that there aren’t problems out there with the situation of African-Americans in society,”Barack Obama, 28, a second-year law student, said yesterday.Obama,...

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR - June 7, 1993

The Diversity Battle at Harvard Law, At the prestigious law school, controversy rages over demands to add women and minority scholars to the faculty
WHEN students arrived at Harvard Law School the morning of April 14, they found some startling news waiting for them.A letter, printed on official-looking stationery and signed by Dean Robert Clark, announced that the law school would offer tenure to four “women of color”- including Anita Hill - in response to students’clamoring “for role models and a wide array of voices on the other side of the podium.”That...

Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA) - February 27, 1990

FROM MEAN STREETS TO HALLOWED HALLS IN JAKARTA AND ON CHICAGO’S SOUTH SIDE, BARACK OBAMA SAW PLENTY. NOW HE’S THE FIRST BLACK EDITOR OF THE HARVARD LAW REVIEW.
Barack Obama, former street urchin and the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review, drapes his long, lean body over a squeaky swivel chair and puts his feet on top of his cluttered desk.He is wearing jeans and a flannel shirt and battered boots that look to weigh about 40 pounds each. He is friendly, open and casual to the point of nonchalance.Obama, 28, spends more than 60 hours a week running what has been called the most influential legal periodical in the country,...

[Hawthorn]

>> At least this puts to rest the question of where Obama was born <<

Yes, but it perpetuates the myth that his father was somebody other than Malcom X.

[Vendome]

They won’t release your long form?

I didn’t know you had requested it.

[Right Wing Assault]

"But it's important that stories like mine aren't used to say that everything is O.K. for blacks."

I wonder what this young obama fellow would think about what the blackish guy who is president is doing?