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Bar Passage Tool

Posted on March 18, 2008
I ran across a new bar prep product that you may find helpful. It’s a software program that organizes your time. Here’s how it works — you create a personalized study schedule around the time that you’re most productive. It’s Outlook based, so if your calendar changes, you can update your study schedule...

Can We Handle It?

Posted on March 18, 2008
Barack Obama?s speech today set the bar high. Maybe too high for America.  He offered the most cogent, clear and honest discussion of race I?ve ever heard by a mainstream figure in public life.  He addressed race and faith in all its complexity.  And standing in the National Constitution Center [...

WELFARE KINGS? FEDS TO BAILOUT BANKING INDUSTRY

Posted on March 17, 2008
  Conservatives and liberals alike have maligned governmental subsidies to poor people.  One of the most pejorative terms to come out of those debates is the “Welfare Queen.”  She defies statistical data (most welfare beneficiaries are white), but she is the icon of waste and laziness...

The State of the Black Union - When Money and Activism May Not Mix

Posted on March 14, 2008
Artwork by Lance Scurvin, YourBlackWorld.com When reading Tavis Smiley-related blogger comments on YourBlackWorld, I actually started to feel sorry for Tavis. Not since Milly Vanilly have I seen a brother lose so many fans so fast. His attacks on Barack Obama were about as popular as Cheeseburger flavored Ice Cream, and the brother [...

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DYSFUNCTIONAL DEMOCRATS? HOW THE PARTY COULD SNATCH DEFEAT FROM THE JAWS OF VICTORY

Posted on March 13, 2008
Florida and Michigan (But Especially Florida)  The Democrats have a reputation for being dysfunctional.  The party expertly snatches defeat from the jaws of victory.  There are two looming issues that the party faces, which could potentially cement its reputation for the next century or two...

Deploying the F-Bomb: The Illegitimate Farrakhan Question

Posted on March 12, 2008
It?s perhaps fitting that the media finally relegated Barack Obama to the confines of being just another ?black candidate? in the final days of Black History Month.  Obama?s fall ? or rather push ? from racial transcendance was broadcast on nationwide T...

Note to Barack Obama: Bringing Us Together May Tear Us Further Apart

Posted on March 11, 2008
Barack Obama?s emergence as a powerful Presidential candidate is truly worth celebrating. Beginning as a modest participant in the election, his creative political genius gave African-Americans the courage to support a black man. Hillary Clinton?s role as the ?political sugar substitute? came to an abrupt end once Obama came with the real cane...

The City that Care Forgot and the Case for Black Reparations

Posted on March 10, 2008
I just visited East New Orleans and the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans, Louisiana. We drove around these two towns — neighborhoods formerly predominated by African-Americans, respectively upper-middle class and working-class, and disproportionately ravaged by the (foreseeable) breech of the levees and the (perhaps deliberate?) neglect of the federal government...

Why Universities are Fundamentally Racist

Posted on March 08, 2008
I recently spoke at my undergraduate alma mater, The University of Kentucky. Coming back home was an amazing experience, as I could literally look at every corner, street, building and sidewalk on the campus and have a powerful memory of being in that particular spot...

Howard Dean: Tone Deaf?

Posted on March 07, 2008
The Governors of Florida and Michigan ? a Republican and Democrat ? have issued a joint-statement urging the Democratic National Convention to seat delegates from their respective states. This would reverse a decision the DNC made last year, which penalized the states for moving their primaries ahead of the prescribed schedule...

Gary Hart Says Clinton Broke the Rules ? But He Neglects to Mention His Own Past.

Posted on March 07, 2008
On Huffingtonpost.com, Gary Hart has a new post saying that Clinton has broken an unwritten rule in politics by giving ammunition to the Republicans to use against Obama.  Here is a snippet: “By saying that only she and John McCain are qualified to lead the country, particularly in times of crisis, Hillary Clinton has broken [...

Most Black Men Have a Little Barack and a Little Farrakhan - Whether We Admit It Or Not

Posted on March 06, 2008
Contributed by Brother Lance Scurvin, cartoonist at YourBlackWorld.com - There really isn’t much else to say.   SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Most Black Men Have a Little Barack and a Little Farrakhan - Whether We Admit It Or Not", url: "http://www...

The Swift Boat Cometh, Patriotism, Loyalty and the Anti Americanism Attack on Obama

Posted on March 06, 2008
  The Swift Boat Cometh, Patriotism, Loyalty and the Anti Americanism Attack on Obama This Presidential election will provide an important window into the vitality of an age-old American slander. Black people cannot be trusted to be [...

Why Farrakhan Has No Problem with Obama, and Why We Respect Him For It

Posted on March 04, 2008
by Dr. Boyce Watkins During the recent Democratic debate, I saw Barack Obama getting pushed into the “black corner”. This is the same corner that Hillary and Bill Clinton pushed him into during the campaign in South Carolina. The same corner that caused some Americans to (temporarily) limit him to being “just another black candidate”, instead [...

March?s Guest Bloggers

Posted on March 04, 2008
First, I’d like to offer a sincere thank you to Dr. Gregory Parks for his invaluable insights as February’s guest blogger. This month, we welcome two of the nation’s leading young intellectuals, Dr. Salamishah Tillet and Dr. Boyce Watkins, as our guest bloggers...

What is Africa to Me, or Should African-Americans Boycott the Beijing Olympics?

Posted on March 03, 2008
    In 1968, African American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos stood on the medal podium with heads bowed and fists raised in solidarity with the Black Power movement as a non-violent protest against American racism. Forty years later, African-Americans have another reason to protest the Olympics: China?s economic and political support of the Sudanese government...

O-BA-MA

Posted on February 29, 2008
“We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For” SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "O-BA-MA", url: "http://www.blackprof.com/?p=1983" });

Same Agenda, Different Race (or Religion or Sexual Orientation)

Posted on February 26, 2008
A friend of mine sent me an interesting email about two weeks ago. It was about a young White woman, named Erica Schlemmer, who quit her White sorority to join Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.?s (a Black sorority) chapter at Vanderbilt University. ?Top Secret,? as Schlemmer was [...

Picture of the Week

Posted on February 23, 2008
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BANISHED

Posted on February 19, 2008
    Nooses have fallen so far outside the national conversation that it came as somewhat of a shock last Tuesday when President Bush finally condemned noose displays in a ceremony at the White House commemorating Black History Month. The noose, said the President ?is wrong ...

ASK MOM  Should I exclude whites

Posted on February 17, 2008
ASK MOM  Should I exclude whites from my review sessions?    Heather F. McKinstry, IV, who is white, teaches an extremely technical and demanding law school class that many third-year students take to prepare for jobs in large law firms or the federal government...

BLACK LOVE ENDING

Posted on February 14, 2008
I was up late last night reading for my class on Federal Courts and thinking about what to write for my class on Feminist Jurisprudence (and hopefully a law review article).  Valentines Day is upon us, and love is in the air.  However, in law school, among the well-educated sisters I know who are sure [...

Julian Bond?s Letter and The Delegate Problem

Posted on February 13, 2008
I first heard on MSNBC last night that NAACP Chairman Julian Bond had, in a letter to Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean, asked that the DNC seat the Florida and Michigan delegates at the Democratic National Convention.  Seating these delegates based on the primary ?elections? held in those states [...

Stop the Presses - Impeachment Cannot Be ?Off the Table?

Posted on February 09, 2008
I know that the public, the press and the pundits (myself included) are caught up in excitement over the presidential primaries.  I?ve got Obama fever and like many, I?ve been monitoring each candidate?s statements and announcements daily.  But our focus on the primaries has pulled our attention away from a matter than demands our most [...

Black(s) (?Greeks?) and Implicit Race Bias

Posted on February 06, 2008
One of the readers asked me to talk about the implicit racial attitudes of Blacks. I had intended to do that, and Professor Rachlinski and I do just that in our forthcoming article. But let me discuss it in another context?Black Greek-letter organizations (?BGLOs?)...

Yes We Can. But We Shouldn?t!

Posted on February 05, 2008
From the beginning of his presidential campaign, which unofficially began with the release of his second book The Audacity of Hope, Senator Barack Obama has been positioned as an underdog against the Clinton machine. Now, with polls showing him in a virtual dead heat with Sen...

Yes We Can

Posted on February 03, 2008
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Politics and Personality Cafe ? Super Tuesday is Around the Corner, so Sound Off on the Presidential Campaign!

Posted on February 03, 2008
Dear BlackProf Community, There have been lots of Obama posts and comments on this webpage.  We’ve also talked about Hillary as well as leading Republican candidates for president.  As Super Tuesday approaches, BlackProf thought it appropriate  to create a space for you to sound off on your political views and opinions...

Implicit (Unconscious) Race Bias and the 2008 Presidential Election: Does Obama Stand a Chance?, Part II

Posted on February 01, 2008
Let me make a few points about how the research I discussed in my first blog entry relates to Obama and his run for the presidency: First, there seems to be a general pervasiveness to Whites? implicit anti-Black/pro-White bias. Though their general bias is most pronounced among conservatives, conservativism can and should be measured on a [...

Welcome, Gregory Parks

Posted on February 01, 2008
First, I’d like to extend a sincere thank you to Dr. R. L’Heureux Lewis for his brilliant contributions  in January.  We hope that he will continue to bless us with his insightful commentary in the future. This month, we welcome Dr. Gregory S...

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