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Epitaph for a mediator
RACIAL politics were a lot more charged back in 1991, when Derrick Bell, then a professor at Harvard law school, went on strike to demand the hiring of a black woman faculty member, and at the same moment inadvertently launched the political career of the student who would become America's first black president. Show More Summary
"[T]he quiet succor Obama gave to black homophobes with his 'evolving' line on gay marriage was always just as ugly as it was unnecessary..."
... writes John McWhorter article in TNR. [P]lus, for someone of his demographic and biography, it was more than a little fake. (Did the Harvard Law Review Editor hugging Derrick Bell in that 1991 video really think two men shouldn’t...Show More Summary
DAVID SWINDLE ON The hatred of Derrick Bell’s Afrolantica Legacies….
DAVID SWINDLE ON The hatred of Derrick Bell’s Afrolantica Legacies.
PJ Media's stupid effort to attack Obama through Derrick Bell's book "Afrolantica Legacies."
Did anyone over there realize how dumb this is? As a 28-year-old student at Harvard Law Barack Obama supported the activism of Professor Derrick Bell and urged his peers to open their hearts and minds to the words of Critical Race Theory's...Show More Summary
Introducing E. Christi Cunningham, the Department of Labor's Derrick Bell
Today, I write about E. Christi Cunningham, a Howard University law professor and associate assistant secretary for regulatory affairs at the Department of Labor. Cunningham appears not to have noticed that the United States has a black...Show More Summary
Chart of the Day: Fox News and Trayvon Martin
I've noted on several occasions that Fox News spent pretty much the entire summer of 2010 fanning the flames of xenophobia and racial resentment, and a few days ago I wondered if the ridiculous Derrick Bell incident foreshadowed a reprise during this year's election summer. Show More Summary
Race-Obsessed Radicals and Guns
The Breitbrats are still “vetting” Derrick Bell and his critical race theory. Apparently to even suggest that U.S. institutions might be rigged to favor white people is an outrageous lie promoted by “race-obsessed radicals.” Worse, say the Breitbrats, critical race theory is even being used “as a foundation to encourage teachers, students, and school systems [...]
Videos: Advocacy of Killing White Babies, and Barack Obama’s Pals Who Saw Little Problem with Such Advocacy
Recall how Khalid Muhammad talked about killing the white women, children, and babies in South Africa? And how Derrick Bell praised Muhammad, saying we should “appreciate” him because, hey, at least he’s just talking about it and not actually doing it? (Yet.) Well, it turns out that Muhammad and Bell weren’t the only radicals with [...]
BREITBART’S STORY ON OBAMA AND DERRICK BELL gets backing in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Th…
BREITBART’S STORY ON OBAMA AND DERRICK BELL gets backing in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The re-release of videos showing Barack Obama as a Harvard Law School student in 1991 speaking at a rally in support of professor Derrick Bell has so far occasioned little more than a yawn from academe. The late Professor Bell [...]
Overnight Open Thread (3-14-2012)
Barack Obama and Derrick Bell Okay sure Obama may have spoken at rally for Prof. Derrick Bell while a law student at Harvard but that was a long time ago and doesn't mean that he subscribed to his racial views...
Soledad's Prism: O'Brien Called Jeremiah Wright's Oddball April 2008 NAACP Speech a 'Home Run'
In her syndicated column today (at NewsBusters; at her home blog), Michelle Malkin runs down how CNN news anchor Soledad O'Brien has an affinity for the work of the late Harvard Professor Derrick Bell, particularly his "critical race...Show More Summary
Soledad O'Brien Called Jeremiah Wright's Oddball April 26, 2008 NAACP Speech a 'Home Run'
In her syndicated column today (at NewsBusters; at her home blog), Michelle Malkin runs down how CNN news anchor Soledad O'Brien has an affinity for the work of the late Harvard Professor Derrick Bell, particularly his "critical race...Show More Summary
The Ugly Campaign to Use Derrick Bell Against Barack Obama
Breitbart.com and its allies are engaging in the sort of guilt-by-association tactics and race-baiting that the right once rejected.
Why the Bell-Obama Connection Matters
The verdict is in: The mainstream media believes that Derrick Bell is not a story. They believe it so deeply that they’ve had members of the Breitbart.com team on national television repeatedly; they’ve spent thousands of words covering it; and they’ve mentioned it on radio and the Internet incessantly. Show More Summary
Bell Supported “Separate but Equal”
Lee Stranahan touched on this point, citing Derrick Bell’s book as evidence. But I think it’s worth elaboration, in light of a 2004 article I stumbled across today (and I’m sure I’m not the first). Derrick Bell explicitly believed that Brown v. Board of Education was decided incorrectly — and that the U.S. Supreme Court [...]
The Derrick Bell thing has them worried
The Breitbart video of Barack Obama embracing Prof. Derrick Bell, one of the founders of critical race theory, has been dismissed as a dud and failure. But the dialogue about how that narrative fits into Obama’s campaign tactics — something I explored on Day 2 of this blog — must have the Obama campaign worried because the [...]
Critical Race Theory: What It Is, And Why It Matters
Liberals have been claiming that Derrick Bell was not a radical. That's awfully funny, given that arch-liberal Michael Tomasky, in a column making fun of the right for making an issue out of this, cannot contest the proposition that Bell...
Janet Dewart Bell: If My Husband Were Here Today, He Would Be Standing Up For Sandra Fluke
Click here to view this media Ed Schultz spoke to the late Prof. Derrick Bell's widow, Janet Dewart Bell about the recent racist attacks on her husband and President Obama from the right wing and talking heads over at Fox. Schultz asked...Show More Summary
Derrick Bell's Widow Speaks About 'Outrage' Against Her Late Husband
The widow of Harvard Law Professor Derrick Bell on Monday spoke on her late husband's behalf after his name is back in recent headlines.
“I’m Smiling Because I Want to Lift Up the Legacy of Derrick Bell”
“Trolling my own blog”, because fighting lies with truth is important. And if you don’t want to take my word, know in advance that Rachel Maddow approved this message… Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Via LGF; hat tip to commentor Gnomedad (Also, Professor Bell did know LeGuin’s short [...]