Breitbart.com has revealed that while at Harvard Law School, Barack Obama embraced the racially charged cause of professor Derrick Bell.
Both Obama and Bell demanded that Harvard hire professors on the basis of race. Obama
and other students rallied to Bell’s side after Bell quit teaching in
an attempt to force Harvard to implement race-based hiring policies.
Other archived video tapes I have
reviewed reveal that Bell espouses racial ideas deeply at odds with
American values--and did so, adamantly, while at Harvard Law School.
The Obama-Bell
connection is the latest in a pattern of Barack Obama’s associations
with individuals who promoted a racially divisive America.
In 2008,
America learned that Obama attended, and had his children baptized, in a
church run by the racist Rev. Jeremiah Wright. After the Obama campaign
launched a successful existential war to have the Rev. Jeremiah Wright
remain a household name only to Fox News viewers, Americans dreamed an
Obama presidency would usher in a post-racial era.
That never materialized.
Instead,
Professor Derrick Bell’s racial world view is now manifesting in the
policies of the Obama administration, particularly in Eric Holder’s
Justice Department. That’s why Obama’s radical associations in the past
matter.
That’s also why
Senator Obama’s appearance with New Black Panther Party President,
Malik Zulu Shabazz in Selma, Alabama, matters. I detail the 2007 Selma
event and photographs with Obama and Shabazz in my book, Injustice.
Andrew
Breitbart courageously published other photos of Obama and Shabazz. The
leftist photographer prohibited my publisher (Regnery) from using some
of the photos. He knew how incendiary they were, and so did Andrew.
Remember, Malik Zulu Shabazz is the very defendant whom Eric Holder let
off in the New Black Panther voter intimidation case.
Policies of
racial division and racial preference have characterized this
administration, even if most in the media have failed willingly to cover
them.
Nobody should
celebrate this lost chance for national racial healing many voters
thought would characterize his Presidency. Nobody should be glad that
the Obama administration turns a blind eye, for example, toward racially
motivated violence like the mob attacks in Wisconsin or Dayton.
That Obama gravitated toward Bell, Wright, and Bill Ayers and all the others we now know about says something about the man.
Contrary to those who might praise Derrick Bell, America is the worse off because of his ideas.
Bell did more
than advocate for race-based hiring. He was perhaps the worst Johnny
Appleseed of a nasty racialist legal theory called Critical Race Theory.
Critical Race Theory, in a nutshell, argues that the law is a weapon of
the majority whites to oppress “people of color.” It argues for
“structural racism”--the idea that American institutions are aligned
against blacks, whether the oppressor is the criminal justice system, a
cabdriver without a fare, businesses, government, Domino's Pizza, banks,
or the police.
Critical Race
Theory does not view the law as applying equally to all Americans, but
advocates for racially unfair implementation of the law to right past
injustice.
Most of the
crackpot racial grievance you hear today has a philosophical foundation
in Critical Race Theory. It is a counter-American, collectivist idea.
Reparations, race-based hiring and excusing New Black Panther voter
intimidation are some of the evil fruits of Critical Race Theory.
Bell’s history
might be insignificant if he kept it to himself. But he didn’t. He used
his professorship to export this worldview to students--students like
Obama, who later used their teaching posts to bring Bell's views to the
next generation.
In the Obama
tapes (that have been revealed so far), we find the future President
calling on Harvard students to “open up your hearts, and your minds to
the words of Professor Derrick Bell.” Race relations in our country are
worse off because too many people followed Obama’s advice.
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