Never Before Seen 1991 Video Of A Harvard Protest Shows Barack Obama Defending A Radical Law Prof.

business Insider ^ | 3/7/2012 | Michael Brendan Dougherty

[tobyhill]

Andrew Kaczynski of Buzzfeed discovered this little gem of a video, in which then-law student Barack Obama spoke at a protest in favor of Harvard Law Professor Derrick Bell.

Kaczynski explains what the protest was all about.

Bell was the first black tenured professor at the school, and a pioneer of "critical race theory," which insisted, controversially, on reading issues of race and power into legal scholarship. His protest that spring was occasioned by Harvard's denial of tenure to a black woman professor, Regina Austin, at a time when only three of the law school's professors were black and only five women. He told Harvard he would take a leave of absence — a kind of academic strike — "until a woman of color is offered and accepted a tenured position on this faculty," and he launched a hunger strike to dramatize his point.

Obama was a major figure on campus, the first black president of the Law Review. Some friends, in a prescient joke, just referred to him as "the first black president." He had a reputation as a conciliatory figure, not a confrontational one like Bell.

[ETL]

" Mr. Obama was photographed during the 2008 campaign carrying the book, "The Post-American World" by Fareed Zakaria. A guy running to be president of the country that saved Europe and the world from Nazism and communism and provided stability ever since was reading about a post-American world."

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/obamas_postamerican_world.html

[Eye of Unk]

Thank you very much for posting that, many people still don’t connect the dots about who motivates Obama and who ultimately gains the most from Obama.

[tutstar]

bfl

[Eva]

I wish they had similar tape from Eric Holder’s college days.