Michelle Malkin explains the significance of the Obama Harvard video

[Jack Rabbit]

20. OK. I'm still waiting for an explanation of the significance of the Harvard video

Another "radical" association? What Sean Hannity and Michelle Malkin call radical should be made of sterner stuff.

From Wikipedia.

From The Blaze.

My summary:

Professor Derrick Bell was a member of the faculty at the Harvard Law School. Prior to that, he had been a civil rights attorney. His major accomplishment in the sixties was assisting James Meredith to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Professor Bell was a leading spokesman in the eighties for more diversity in law faculties. This was during the regime of the Republican Southern Strategy, a media strategy to scare white people implying that admitting black professors to more lucrative academic positions could only be done by lowering academic standards for those positions. The subtext of the argument was the assumption that black people are for the most part unqualified for such positions and that discrimination is a thing of the past.

While there is mainstream criticism of Bell, this is not mainstream. It appears that Britebart's last contribution to American discourse was like many of his others: an example dog whistle racism. The far right (which includes Britebart, Hannity and Ms. Malkin) simply sees Professor Bell as an uppity (rhymes with digger) who dedicated his life to opening doors for Afro-American lawyers that the far right would like to keep shut and locked.