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Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree told the Herald he was just kidding when he suggested that a decades-old clip of a young Barack Obama praising and embracing controversial Professor Derrick Bell was kept hidden from voters during the 2008 campaign.

“It was a big joke,” Ogletree said. “If you watch the tape, the audience is laughing when I’m laughing.”

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

So they had not met right away. Has all the white Presidents met with all the prominent white business owners? What did Obama have to do with what Johnson said? Did he twist it somehow? Make it into a racial issue? Push his own agenda?

As far as being the most prominent black businessman.. I tend to disagree.

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

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Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree told the Herald he was just kidding when he suggested that a decades-old clip of a young Barack Obama praising and embracing controversial Professor Derrick Bell was kept hidden from voters during the 2008 campaign.

“It was a big joke,” Ogletree said. “If you watch the tape, the audience is laughing when I’m laughing.”

http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20220309ogletree_iwas_jokingabout_obamavideo_clip

We can take that off the list as well.

Martin... how was that racially motivated when the country was calling for an investigation?

Shirley Sherrod.... fired for racist comments based upon a video by a conservative site... then apologized too and offered another position, one she was considering before turning it down. How was that "racially" motivated?

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

How is that racial? And that wasnt Ogletree, that was Johnson.

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“I can understand what you’ve experienced,” to Ms. Sherrod.

“If I had a son – he’d look like Treyvon.”

Yep, he is bringing race into both of those situations.

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ORIGINAL: Aylee

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

How is that racial? And that wasnt Ogletree, that was Johnson.

You really do not see it?

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ORIGINAL: xXsoumisXx

and it is a fact of life now. We, as educators, teach to the tests. that is all that is important. And race is a huge factor in these outcomes. Now, we just need a small percentage of improvement.. scores are not important as we have a very large percentage of enrollment 'minority". The more minorities enrolled in a school.. the more lax the standards. I wonder, if a school is 90% one race is it still a minority?
ETA: sometimes the reason for the different standards is all about language. for Hispanic as well as Black/African American. If the home language is not standard English, the child has some catching up to do, doesn't matter if it is Spanish or Slang, or Russian, or Chinese. the effect on the child is the same.
In fact.. if it is another language it is better, than if it is badly spoken English. There are special programs for ESL, or English as Second Language Learners. Not so much if Slang is the home language.

There are a lot of things that can affect a child's performance. I disagree with codifying the idea that we should expect different levels of achievement based on melanin. The kids are in the school, receiving the same instruction, the expected outcome should be equal across the board. Anything else is wrong and contributes to the idea that biology is destiny.

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I know that I spoke to people in '08 that told me that they were voting for Barry because: "He knows what it is to be a black man in America". While it's anecdotal, those statements surely suggest that those people were voting for a race.



Peace and comfort,



Michael[/color]