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Elena Kagan and the Supreme Triangulations of Barack ObamaIn These TimesHarvard Law Professor Lani Guinier is a leader of this parade of notables, but by not even considering her, Obama shows he is not responsive to the ...and more »
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Port Chester Elects Luis Marino.Tapped (blog)It could be that strategic "plumping" -- where voters load up their votes on one candidate, something that advocates of cumulative voting like Lani Guinier ...and more »
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The real question is “Was this just a chance beating?”… Or, “Was this Governor Spencer just following orders from above?” You’ll have to decide that for yourself.
Click screencap below to enlarge. He was involved in a so-called K-Mart labor stuggle in 1
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Riehl World View
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...1998, Lani Guinier became the first black woman to be appointed to a tenured professorship at Harvard Law School. Before joining the faculty at Harvard, she was a tenured professor for 10 years at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. During the 1980s,...
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Leaf Chronicle
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1st black woman in tenured professorship at Harvard Law to speak at APSUClarksville Leaf ChronicleIn 1998, Lani Guinier became the first black woman to be appointed to a tenured professorship at Harvard Law School. Before joining the faculty at Harvard, ...
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...you will find that the majority of full persons still believe in Obamacare. Think I'm being rude? Just consider that Lani Guinier advocated giving minority votes greater weight than white votes in order to increase the influence of minorities in elections....
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Immigration system must be fixed nowHofstra University Hofstra ChronicleThis view illustrates what civil rights activist Lani Guinier calls “blaming the canary in the coal mine.” Back in the day, coal miners brought canaries ...and more »
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AlterNet (blog)Tavis Smiley on his “We Count!” Conference and why America needs the Black AgendaAlterNet (blog)We recall his sandbagging Lani Guinier at the Justice Department after he nominated her. He signed that crime bill – that racists crime bill – that ...and more »
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I’m going to go out on a limb and predict they’ll both try to make a case that we are still a very racist society; in fact, more so now under a black president than any time since the Civil Rights era.
Again, it’s not much of a prediction, since that’s
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Rivers' background makes ACORN look like the Girl Scouts but Fox News didn't seem to have a concern in the world about the corruption found in HIS organization which receives taxpayer funds.
Sponsored by the Political Theory Project at Brown University www.brown.edu Does Race Matter? Minority Groups and Political Representation with Lani Guinier & Jim Sleeper In her now-infamous speech to the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor declared, "Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences ... our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging." Sotomayors statement reinvigorated a national discussion regarding the issue of minority representation in American politics. Our speakers shine a light on this topic in addressing the question: when, to what extent and why could members of a minority group or identity better represent that groups interests than non-members? Speakers: Jim Sleeper is a writer and teacher on American civic culture and politics and a lecturer in political science at Yale. He is the author of The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York and Liberal Racism. Lani Guinier is an American civil rights scholar and the first black woman tenured professor at Harvard Law School.
The Janus Forum presents a lecture on importance of identity in politics. Featured speakers Lani Guinier, Professor at Harvard Law School, and Jim Sleeper, author of "Liberal Racism", will address the issue of minority representation in American politics. They will discuss the question of whether members of a minority group better represent that groups interests than non-members. Thursday, November 19 4:00 pm Salomon 101 Brown University Reception to follow. This event is accessible and open to the public. Sponsored by the Political Theory Project.
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The 90 writers appearing at the Boston Book Festival on Saturday run the gamut from Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk to actress Alicia Silverstone, author of “The Kind Diet.’’
Not surprisingly, religion, politics, history, and sports will play a
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Gwen mckinney sits down for another installment of her "Quick Minute With Gwen" web series, this time for a conversation with the Harvard scholar Lani Guinier about race, racism, and race relations in America. Part 3 of 3.
Gwen mckinney sits down for another installment of her "Quick Minute With Gwen" web series, this time for a conversation with the Harvard scholar Lani Guinier about race, racism, and race relations in America. Part 2 of 3.
Gwen mckinney sits down for another installment of her "Quick Minute With Gwen" web series, this time for a conversation with the Harvard scholar Lani Guinier about race, racism, and race relations in America. Part 1 of 3.
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But there is good reason to oppose Perez apart from the New Black
Panther case. He is quite simply a proponent of the same radical agenda
of racial quotas and preferences that characterized the civil rights
agenda of failed Clinton nominee Lani Guinier
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Town Hall
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*The Green Party reportedly has its sights set on Van Jones as its next candidate for U.S. president.
The former green-jobs czar under President Barack stepped down last Sunday after coming under fire for making derogatory comments
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EURweb
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The Green Party compared Obama’s restraint in coming to Jones’ aid over the recent controversy to President Bill Clinton’s lack of defense when his African-American nominee for Assistant Attorney General, Lani Guinier, was attacked and ultimately
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The Hill
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WASHINGTON, DC — Green Party leaders invited Van Jones, who stepped down recently as President Obama’s advisor on Green Jobs, to abandon the Democratic Party and “come home to the Green Party.”
Greens called Mr. Jones, who resigned last Saturday after
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Independent Political Report
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The muckety-mucks on Martha’s Vineyard aren’t waiting for President Obama to get the party started.
Perhaps because the island will be overrun by Secret Service and all manner of media once the commander-in-chief arrives Sunday, at least a few folks
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Boston Globe
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OAK BLUFFS - Gail Rice was jogging near her summer home in East Chop, on the northern tip of Martha’s Vineyard, a few years ago when she passed a tall, thin African-American man gazing at the water. He looked familiar. Isn’t that the politician, she
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Prometheus 6 | All respect and no restraint
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OAK BLUFFS - Gail Rice was jogging near her summer home in East Chop, on the northern tip of Martha’s Vineyard, a few years ago when she passed a tall, thin African-American man gazing at the water. He looked familiar. Isn’t that the politician, she
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Boston Globe
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Obama and Gates articulate a radical view of "equality" that progresses way beyond the simple absence of racism.
Recently, Attorney General Eric Holder rapped America’s knuckles for being “a nation of cowards” because we “simply do not talk enough with
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Pajamas Media
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As head of the Department of Bioethics at The Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health, and someone who has devoted his life to bioethics issues, Ezekiel J. Emanuel has spent much of his career discussing and writing about some of the most
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ABC News
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"Obama’s fundamental reflectiveness extends to refusing to enable this camp – Hallelujah."
I guess it was just a coinky dink that Obama's fundamental reflectiveness didn't kick in until a public outcry over Obama's slander of police damaged his poll
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The New Republic
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Ours was to be the generation with cultural accountability, and cultural security: the generation that would tell white folks that we would not be deterred--that, whether they knew it or not, we too were of the elite.
The attention that the case has
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Huffington Post
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Among the
many outrageous statements made about Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Media Matters
for America has highlighted the following:
RUSH LIMBAUGH (host): The real
question here that needs to be asked -- and nobody on our side, from a
columnist to a TV
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DECEMBER 2000/JANUARY 2001
Promoting diversity in education and employment requires us to rethink testing and meritocracy.
Susan Sturm and Lani Guinier
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Tell Me More, July 13, 2009 · Hearings for President Obama's Supreme Court nominee begin Monday. If confirmed, Judge Sonia Sotomayor will become the first Latina — and only the third woman —
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In a New York Times op-ed today, Profs. Lani Guinier and Susan Sturm discuss why they dislike standardized tests. They have no empathy, as it were, for Frank Ricci in the New Haven firefighters case, who earned his promotion by doing well on one. But
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Bench Memos
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From the New York Times:
Trial by Firefighters
by Lani Guinier and Susan Sturm
The most important skills of any fire department lieutenant or captain are steady command presence, sound judgment and the ability to make life-or-death decisions under
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Now that he's back from his vacation, Bill Clinton can expect confirmation trouble once again. This lime the fuss is over Morton Halperin, nominated to fill the new position of assistant secretary of defense for democracy and peacekeeping.
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If the U.S. Senate rejects race-based justice, Sonia Sotomayor will never sit on the Supreme Court.
Because that is what Sonia is all about. As The New York Times reported Saturday, the salient cause of her career has been advancing persons of color,
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"Why, oh why can't we have a better press corps?" -- Brad DeLong et al.
Justice Sotomayor has had to deal all her life with unfair racial/ethnic discrimination, often in forms that violate the Constitution and numerous statutes. So one would naturally
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Firedoglake
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This morning -- in showcasing right-wing concerns over Sonia Sotomayor's "focus on race" -- the NYT drew this visual parallel ... with Lani Guinier. (The article --"Sotomayor’s Focus on Race Issues May Be Hurdle"-- also features a close-up photo of an
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WASHINGTON The selection of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court has opened a new battle in the fight over affirmative action and other race-conscious remedies for patterns of inequality, with each side invoking the election of the first black
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An excerpt from Lani Guinier's keynote lecture at the 2008 Scholar & Feminist Conference, "The State of Democracy: Gender and Political Participation," held on March 1, 2008 at Barnard College. Visit www.barnard.edu/bcrw for additional videos and podcasts.
An excerpt from Lani Guinier's keynote lecture at the 2008 Scholar & Feminist Conference, "The State of Democracy: Gender and Political Participation," held on March 1, 2008 at Barnard College. Visit www.barnard.edu/bcrw for additional videos and podcasts.
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In favor:
Barack Obama
Lani Guinier
Gerald Torres
Alberto Gonzales
Alan Dershowitz
The American Diabetes Association
Against:
Richard Epstein
Mitt Romney
Mike Huckabee
John Yoo
Greg Mankiw's grandmother
Of all the "againsts," the strongest reaction was
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Updated, May 26, 7:10 p.m. | Gerald Torres of the University of Texas says the choice is also practical: Judge Sotomayor is well practiced at making calls on hard cases in which experts disagree.
Updated, May 26, 5:40 p.m. | Lani Guinier of Harvard
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The New York Times
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Former U.S. Attorney Gen. Alberto Gonzales and legal scholars Charles Ogletree and Lani Guinier. If you heard today's broadcast, then you heard those voices share their opinions -- and do so quite openly -- on choosing the next Supreme Court nominee,
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NPR
http://www.npr.org/blogs/tellmemore/2009/05/diversity_matters_or_does_it.html?ft=1&f=6831923
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THE NATION has convened a great roundtable of legal thinkers, from Dahlia Lithwick to Lani Guinier, musing on the big question on Barack Obama's mind: Whom to nominate for the Supreme Court? The always-contentious deliberations have taken on even more
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The Root
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William Greider
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The good times, as we have known them, are not coming back. Americans need a new vision that helps them deal with new economic realities.
Helena Cobban
:
The surest path to statehood and lasting peace with Israel is engagement with
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You can tell a lot about the conservative movement’s seriousness in complaining about the need for color blind policies by how they treated Lani Guinier for making this argument. Instead of welcoming an elegant solution to the problem, they branded her
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“It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.”
The above quote from
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Last Free Voice
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In the early days of his presidency, Bill Clinton yielded to right-wing opposition and dumped a high-level, very promising appointee. Lani Guinier was nominated to head the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, a place that had been moribund
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Indianapolis Star
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UT Arlington presents an excerpt from Lani Guinier's talk on March 3, 2009 about "Rethinking Race & Class". Learn more about upcoming speakers in this series at: www.uta.edu
This is Tricia Rose's segment at the State of the Black Union 10th anniversary. It was the morning panel and took place in Los Angeles. Listen to Professor Rose as she talks about issues of the economy, hip-hop, and urban culture along with explaining how they all effect each other. Dr. Rose is a Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University and more information can be found on her website www.triciarose.com Enjoy! Watch and discuss
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Guinier goes on to insult hard working students and diminish their academic success in explaining her rationale, saying, "the reason that I'm calling it racism is because it is a state of mind that is indifferent to the fact that these tests, whatever
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Right Wing News (Conservative News and Views)
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