Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: We pahked the cah...

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We pahked the cah...

 We visited Hahvahd yesterday, only to find Chicago students tearing it up academically and politically, as expected.


First, we went over to the Law School where dozens of students have been occupying the Wasserstein Lounge,trying to create a learning environment more relevant and safe for students of color. Occupiers I talked with, including Chicagoan and Whitney Young alumKeaton Allen, want more focus on critical race theory and more African-American profs.

Yesterday's speaker at the protest was none other than Harvard law prof Lani Guinier. Who could be more relevant at a time when Republicans have sworn to stonewall any Scalia replacement chosen by President Obama? Prof. Guinier is the first woman of color ever appointed to a tenured professorship at that institution.

Keaton Allen & Amanda Klonsky

But in 1993, President Bill Clintonpulled back Guinier's nomination as attorney general in the face of a brutal and racist negative Republican-led media campaign, referring to Guinier as a "quota queen." One New York Times opinion piece falsely claimed that Guinier was in Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: We pahked the cah...: