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What's wrong with Derrick Bell?

angrysoba

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So, I heard that there was some damning video of Obama from his college years that Andrew Breitbart had in his possession and was going to finish Obama's re-election campaign and political career. Then, as we all know, Breitbart died suddenly.

Obviously what was on this video must have been dangerous stuff. No doubt it would show Obama's plan to turn the United States into a Muslim Bolshevik Dictatorship or show him burning down orphanages for the Weathermen or something but instead it shows him introducing and hugging Derrick Bell.

Who's Derrick Bell and what's wrong with him?

When I finally found him I expected his Wikipedia page to say that he blew up orphanges for the Weathermen but it actually said almost the complete opposite. Apparently he wanted to implement the radical notion that black people can get tenure at universities. For a few seconds I was scratching my head and then I remembered… it was an Andrew Breitbart CPAC speech! Everything fell into place and normal service was resumed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_Bell
 
I don't know much about Derrick Bell although I think I sat in on one or two of his panels at NYU when I was there. Last semester I read one of his articles for a class; good piece about the potential conflicts of interest between non-profit activist litigators and the communities they purport to serve. Took the surprising but not exactly radical position that some black communities might be better served by legal efforts to improve the quality of education in majority-black schools than by ongoing crusades to achieve perfect racial parity (and more to the point, that the communities themselves should have more input in the kinds of legal strategies being undertaken in their name). Interesting, reasonable, and not at all like the wild-eyed reverse-racist he's been depicted as in recent days.
 
Revealed: The Radical Racial Ideas of the Prof. Obama Raves About in New Harvard Video
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In the video released by BuzzFeed today, President Obama — then President of the Harvard Law Review — speaks on behalf of now deceased Professor Derrick Bell, formerly of Harvard Law School. But who is Bell, and what did he stand for? We went digging, and you might be shocked at what we found.
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http://www.theblaze.com/stories/rev...-prof-obama-raves-about-in-new-harvard-video/

Is there anybody here even slightly shocked by Bell?
 
angrysoba said:
Is there anybody here even slightly shocked by Bell?
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I actually never heard of him before. That the sludge monster didn't like him means nothing to me. You gotta be doing something right to piss off the corporations.
 
A negro president is bad enough, but does he really have to rub it in Republicans their face by going around and hugging other negroes?
 
He wrote a sci-fi story in the 90's that was adapted into one segment of a Twilight Zone-esque made-for-HBO anthology movie.

Truly history's greatest monster.
 
And if you can't trust a random poster at a Carolina Panthers message board who posts a three-minuted video clip (that doesn't actually say what he claims it says in his OP) to give you the Straight Dope about Derrick Bell, who can you trust?
 
Derrick Bell thought Louis Farrakhan was a great hero for the people.

He believed (or at least stated) ridiculous things, like:

In 1992, he told The New York Times that black Americans were more subjugated than at any time since slavery.
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Oh, and that science fiction story?

One of his best-known parables is “The Space Traders,” which appeared in his 1992 book, “Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism.” In the story, as Professor Bell later described it, creatures from another planet offer the United States “enough gold to retire the national debt, a magic chemical that will cleanse America’s polluted skies and waters, and a limitless source of safe energy to replace our dwindling reserves.” In exchange, the creatures ask for only one thing: America’s black population, which would be sent to outer space. The white population accepts the offer by an overwhelming margin.
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Sounds like another hero to the people.
 
Puppycow said:
I watched that video all the way to the end, but I missed the part where he said that "all white people are racist."
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Neither did I. I'm not even sure what the topic was because there's an obvious cut near the beginning.
 
Sounds like another hero to the people.
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And minorities having heroes is a problem for whom?


Why if that's allowed, next they'll be claiming that racism actually exists. :rolleyes:
 
Alrighty. Let us assume that Bell really was some radical black nationalist who sees racism in corn flakes. How does the video implicate Obama as sharing those views?
 
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