All Videos Tagged Obama (The Four Worlds International Institute) - The Four Worlds International Institute2024-05-06T02:16:29Zhttps://www.fwii.net/video/video/listTagged?tag=Obama&rss=yes&xn_auth=noPresident Obama Protesting at Harvard in 1991tag:www.fwii.net,2012-03-07:2429082:Video:915252012-03-07T22:33:36.933ZPhil Lane Jr.https://www.fwii.net/profile/phillanejr
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</a> <br></br>Andrew Kaczynski of Buzzfeed discovered this little gem of a video, in which then-law student Barack Obama spoke at a protest in favor of Harvard Law Professor Derrick Bell.<br></br>
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Bell was the first black tenured professor at the school, and a pioneer of "critical race theory," which insisted, controversially, on reading…
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</a><br />Andrew Kaczynski of Buzzfeed discovered this little gem of a video, in which then-law student Barack Obama spoke at a protest in favor of Harvard Law Professor Derrick Bell.<br />
Kaczynski explains what the protest was all about.<br />
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.<br />
Obama was a major figure on campus, the first black president of the Law Review. Some friends, in a prescient joke, just referred to him as "the first black president." He had a reputation as a conciliatory figure, not a confrontational one like Bell.<br />
Probably the most amazing thing about it is the fact that Obama's speech-giving style is so little changed since his days at Harvard. Obama has the same soaring cadence, dramatic pauses, and light-hearted jokes that you find in almost every one of his speeches