Obama Protesting At Harvard In 1990
Barack Obama is seen here speaking in support of Harvard Professor Derrick Bell at a 1990 protest for more diversity on the law school's faculty.
Via BuzzFeed:
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.Commentary
Of all places at Harvard to Obama it has always been about race and it will always be he doesnot believe in equal rights that great men like Rev.Martin Luther King Jr. was
