Obama Harvard Tapes Exposed on Hannity (click title to entry - thank you).
Evidently, Hannity is attempting to take up the Breitbart mantel. Somehow that is fitting.
...Breitbart, (click here) the conservative who posted Sherrod's comments on his website, told our Gannett colleague Chuck Raasch that his point was to expose the audience reaction at the NAACP banquet; Breitbart said that he was trying to expose the same kind of racism that the NAACP has accused Tea Party members of practicing....
It is really interesting this topic should come up, because, the then President of the Harvard Law Review, Barak Obama was the first African American President of the Review. He was speaking out regarding the efforts to foster diversity at Harvard Law School. President Obama entered Harvard in 1988.
Nineteen years earlier, it was the Harvard Law School minority students that demonstrated for a black faculty member. Derrick Bell was then the executive director of the Western Center on Law and Poverty at the University of Southern California. It was the minority students at Harvard that caused the university to find Dr. Bell and hire him to teach there.
So, when Dr. Derrick Bell felt compelled after nineteen years of being the sole black professor at Harvard and realizing he was getting older and there was no movement toward diversity beyond his hire by Harvard, it was President Obama that answered the call of the minority law students again in support of Dr. Bell's position.
This is not a radical thing to do at Harvard. It is a way of bringing focus to an issue and have it resolved. The black minority at Harvard is in a unique position to help society move change along and accept difficult decisions. What President Obama did was in the traditions of Harvard when the university was too set in its cornerstones.
Great institutions, like Harvard, are great institutions because they are set in rock solid cornerstones that endure over time. But, great institutions also realize their short comings. So, to have a group of minority students assemble peacefully in the company of Dr. Bell, whom had a very unique position at Harvard, to bring attention to the lack of diversity within the university structure was indeed welcome and necessary.
I am sure Dr. Bell had been writing on behalf of diversity for most of those nineteen years to the Harvard Board of Trustees and the President of Harvard, but, when the lethargy became too obvious it was up to the students to shake things up a bit. So, in the great tradition that is Harvard, the students can very well be the hub of change. If the students feel under served by the 'establishment,' if you will, then they weren't being properly prepared for their careers to follow.
As a minority student at Harvard and a leader within that minority it was Barak Obama's place to participate in honoring Dr. Bell's initiative and he carried out that responsibility no differently than he carries his responsibilities today in the Oval Office, with dignity and purpose.
Unfortunately, the Right Wing Media in the year 2012 has completely lost its moral compass and once again a minority in the USA has been targeted for hatred and this time it is the President of the United States of America.
When is this racism and bigotry going to stop?
In the last election is was Muslim radicals on the front cover of The New Yorker. That was nothing short of incendiary. Now this with Murdoch's network. Is incendiary the only mechanism to destroy reputations and dignity of African Americans in the USA?
Breitbart died. His racism should die with him.
It is really interesting this topic should come up, because, the then President of the Harvard Law Review, Barak Obama was the first African American President of the Review. He was speaking out regarding the efforts to foster diversity at Harvard Law School. President Obama entered Harvard in 1988.
Nineteen years earlier, it was the Harvard Law School minority students that demonstrated for a black faculty member. Derrick Bell was then the executive director of the Western Center on Law and Poverty at the University of Southern California. It was the minority students at Harvard that caused the university to find Dr. Bell and hire him to teach there.
So, when Dr. Derrick Bell felt compelled after nineteen years of being the sole black professor at Harvard and realizing he was getting older and there was no movement toward diversity beyond his hire by Harvard, it was President Obama that answered the call of the minority law students again in support of Dr. Bell's position.
This is not a radical thing to do at Harvard. It is a way of bringing focus to an issue and have it resolved. The black minority at Harvard is in a unique position to help society move change along and accept difficult decisions. What President Obama did was in the traditions of Harvard when the university was too set in its cornerstones.
Great institutions, like Harvard, are great institutions because they are set in rock solid cornerstones that endure over time. But, great institutions also realize their short comings. So, to have a group of minority students assemble peacefully in the company of Dr. Bell, whom had a very unique position at Harvard, to bring attention to the lack of diversity within the university structure was indeed welcome and necessary.
I am sure Dr. Bell had been writing on behalf of diversity for most of those nineteen years to the Harvard Board of Trustees and the President of Harvard, but, when the lethargy became too obvious it was up to the students to shake things up a bit. So, in the great tradition that is Harvard, the students can very well be the hub of change. If the students feel under served by the 'establishment,' if you will, then they weren't being properly prepared for their careers to follow.
As a minority student at Harvard and a leader within that minority it was Barak Obama's place to participate in honoring Dr. Bell's initiative and he carried out that responsibility no differently than he carries his responsibilities today in the Oval Office, with dignity and purpose.
Unfortunately, the Right Wing Media in the year 2012 has completely lost its moral compass and once again a minority in the USA has been targeted for hatred and this time it is the President of the United States of America.
When is this racism and bigotry going to stop?
In the last election is was Muslim radicals on the front cover of The New Yorker. That was nothing short of incendiary. Now this with Murdoch's network. Is incendiary the only mechanism to destroy reputations and dignity of African Americans in the USA?
Breitbart died. His racism should die with him.
