Posted on 03/07/2012 11:01:57 AM PST by Jayster
Earlier today, Buzzfeed’s Ben Smith announced on Twitter that video researcher Andrew Kaczynski had released “the mysterious Harvard/Obama/race video that the Breitbart folks have been talking about.” The video, which Kaczynski says was “licensed from a Boston television station,” shows a young Barack Obama leading a protest at Harvard Law School on behalf of Prof. Derrick Bell, a radical academic tied to Jeremiah Wright--about whom we will be releasing significant information in the coming hours. However, the video has been selectively edited--either by the Boston television station or by Buzzfeed itself. Over the course of the day, Breitbart.com will be releasing additional footage that has been hidden by Obama's allies in the mainstream media and academia. Breitbart.com Editor-in-Chief Joel Pollak and Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro will appear on The Sean Hannity Show to discuss the tape. The full tape will be released tonight on Fox News' Hannity.
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Duh! That is the extremely edited version. The WHOLE thing is going to be aired tonight.
If it’s edited, no one will take it seriously. I hope he’s got better stuff than this.
I think that you are missing the purpose of the story on Breitbart.
They are saying that Ben Smith/The Left is releasing an EDITED version of the WHOLE TAPE and they (Breitbart Team) will be releasing the WHOLE TAPE.
It will be on Hannity tonight.
Newt will.
Ok...gotcha! I did miss that part.
I look forward to seeing the unedited one and if it will help
take down this little despot, then all the better!
Shades of the Clintons leaks regarding their trials. Leak information yourself in spurts so the full news isn't so damning.
Also, by SOMEONE circulating an edited tape, the Leftist talking meme on the social media can be "well, the tapes were edited..." just as they use that talking point to disregard the ACORN tapes Breitbart released.
I recall seeing a better quality and longer version of this video weeks ago. I think it was even on LiveLeak.
E.g., uploaded Oct 27, 2008: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5m6YFBcixo&t=48
In Dubious Battle
Derrick Bell Tolls The Death Of Hope In The War On American Racism
September 27, 1992|By Reviewed by Clarence Page, a Tribune columnist.
Faces at the Bottom
of the Well: The Permanence of Racism
By Derrick Bell
Basic Books, 222 pages, $20)
Those who no longer think of racism as much of a serious problem in determining opportunities for African-Americans may be disappointed to hear from Derrick Bell, Harvard Law School`s first black tenured professor, that racism in America is not only alive and well but also permanent.
Bell presents his proposition, easier to debate than it is to deny, in bold italics in the introduction to his new book, ``Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism``:
``Black people will never gain full equality in this country. Even those herculean efforts we hail as successful will produce no more than temporary
`peaks of progress,` short-lived victories that slide into irrelevance as racial patterns adapt in ways that maintain white dominance. This is a hard-to-accept fact that all history verifies. We must acknowledge it, not as a sign of submission, but as an act of ultimate defiance.``
But if inequality is so permanent, why bother fighting it? For the sake of the struggle itself, of course, says Bell.
For inspiration, he cites Mrs. Biona MacDonald, a matronly civil-rights organizer in the Mississippi Delta, who, like others, persevered in spite of the threats (lost jobs, lost mortgages and lost lives) such activism posed:
``I can`t speak for everyone, but as for me, I am an old woman. I lives to harass white folks.``
Bell was intrigued. ``She did not ever hint that her harassment would topple those white`s well-entrenched power,`` he writes. ``Rather, her goal was defiance, and its harassing effect was likely more potent precisely because she did what she did without expecting to topple her oppressors.``
Speaking in the voice of a character who is a satirical takeoff on Langston Hughes` Jesse B. Semple, Bell writes, ``A holiday for Dr. King is just another instance-like integration-that black folks work for and white folks grant when they realize-long before we do-that it is mostly a symbol that won`t cost them much and will keep us blacks pacified.``
Black elected officials? You gotta be kidding, says Bell. They make powerful symbols but lack the resources to address the problems they inherit, Bell says, and thus can do little to overcome either unemployment or poverty. Harsh. But Bell at his most bitter emerges in the final chapter, when he imagines space aliens coming to Earth with a bizarre deal: They will give Americans enough gold to bail out its bankrupt government coffers, special chemicals that will clean up the atmosphere and a totally safe nuclear power supply to relieve our reliance on fossil fuels. All the visitors ask in return is all of the African-Americans who live in the United States.
To make Bell`s short story shorter, white America goes for the deal. And he finds sufficient precedent in American legal history to create a scenario that would be the dream of the Ku Klux Klan: The ultimate removal of all civil-rights protections from African-Americans and our departure, aboard spaceships this time, an enforced journey echoing the way our forefathers arrived in this country.
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Don't assume that 'people' know anything. You might be surprised at what most people don't know. If people knew half of what you think they know, Obama would never have gained office.
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Freedom to think at Harvard Law
THE WASHINGTON TIMES - Wednesday, JULY 17, 1991
Author: Eric Felten, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Dean Robert Clark was not about to see his Harvard Law School office be turned into the Columbia University president’s office of the 1990s. No cigar-smoking students with their feet up on his desk. So when student protesters staged sit-ins blocking his office lobby for the second time in a semester last fall, he cracked down.
The students were following the lead of Professor Derrick Bell , who has taken a leave of absence from the university until a black woman professor is appointed to the law school. Mr. Bell is protesting the school’s unwillingness to offer tenure to Anita Allen, a visiting professor from Georgetown University and a black woman.
“We took pictures of the students in the office so that we would know who they were, and [we] told them they were in clear violation of university rules,” Mr. Clark says. The students also were told that if they did not leave the office by the end of the day, they would be disciplined. They were sent letters saying such protests would not be tolerated in the future.
“They waited a little past the deadline, to show they weren’t intimidated,” Mr. Clark says. With a hint of mischief, he adds, “Maybe I shouldn’t say this - because I don’t want to encourage them to try it again - but they haven’t been back.”
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_L._Allen
Anita LaFrance Allen-Castellito (born March 24, 1953)[1] is the Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She is also a senior fellow in the bioethics department of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, a collaborating faculty member in African studies, and an affiliated faculty member in the women’s studies program. In 2010 President Barack Obama named Allen to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. She is a Hastings Center Fellow.
This is from when he is much younger. People are not going to care.
This is what is so frustrating to me. The Libs get tons of time and sympathy for trotting out women who were made “uncomfortable” by Herman Cain 15+ years ago,like it’s a BIG deal now,,,and now they will yawn on this video, as if time is the reason it doesn’t matter. Total double standard.
Courageous visitor needs your support
Chicago Sun-Times - Tuesday, October 22, 1991
Author: Vernon Jarrett
Yes, this indeed is an unsolicited commercial, an urgent appeal to all ye brothers and sisters of all races and faiths who don't like the revival of sexism and racism that is promoted both arrogantly and subtly in our country today. One small plea:
Please contact the Community Renewal Society, and purchase your tickets for its annual banquet this Thursday at the Palmer House. The featured speaker is Professor Derrick A. Bell Jr., a distinguished sage whose courage ranks as high as his academic accomplishments.
This is the same African American author of several monumental studies and volumes of research on human rights who took leave of his Harvard Law School professorship last year in protest of Harvard ‘s shortage of women and racial minorities among its law faculty. Professor Bell has since joined the law faculty at New York University.
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YES! I’m planning to watch.
God bless and hold dear our Andrew!
there is great depth in your comment.....Smith did the best he could gettin brick and steel to stand for photos usin only duct tape and a can of spray paint
I had to go out for a while this afternoon, but Bell was right up Obama’s radical alley. I found it interesting that Bell was a Carter guy and that he spent a lot of time in Mississippi during the school integration.
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Hill vs. Thomas - Spotlighting Splits and Diversity Among Black Americans
Chicago Sun-Times - Sunday, November 22, 1992
Author: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Race-ing Justice,
En-gendering Power Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas and the Construction of Social Reality. Edited by Toni Morrison. Pantheon. $15.
Court of Appeal The Black Community Speaks Out on the Racial and Sexual Politics of Thomas vs. Hill. Edited by The Black Scholar. Ballantine. $9.
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There are pieces by notables such as June Jordan, Maulana Karenga, Maya Angelou, Derrick Bell and Julian Bond - as well as a host of intellectuals who may be less prominent but are no less incisive. Readers will agree some of the essays are marvels of clarity and reason while others are maddeningly tendentious and unenlightened. But they won’t agree which ones are which.
The editors, Robert Chrisman and Robert L. Allen, wanted to represent the diversity of opinion on Thomas and Hill within black America, and in this they have succeeded.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. is W. E. B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities and chair of the Afro-American Studies department at Harvard University. This review first appeared in Newsday.
Obama , the postmodernist - In the Illinois senator’s world, words have no fixed meaning, and truth is often just a matter of perspective.
USA TODAY (Arlington, VA) - Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Author: Jonah Goldberg: (c) USA TODAY
EXCERPT
Obama gives every indication of having evolved from this intellectual soup. As a student and, later, a law school instructor, Obama was sympathetic to Critical Race Theory, a wholly owned franchise of postmodernism. At Harvard , Obama revered Derrick Bell , a controversial black law professor who preferred personally defined literary truths over old-fashioned literal truth. Words are power, Bell and Co. argued, and your so-called facts are merely myths of the white power structure.
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