Friday, April 30, 2010
A Harvard 3L's E-Mail
An e-mail written by a third-year student at the Harvard Law School contained the following observation: "I absolutely do not rule out the possibility that African Americans are, on average, genetically predisposed to be less intelligent." The e-mail was forwarded to the Harvard Black Law Student Association list-serv with the writer's name and then went viral.
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http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2010/04/29/stephanie-grace-racist-harvard-emailer/
"Law school trains you to think in a particularly linear way — not 'what is just here,' but 'what is consistent here.'... But the lack of emphasis on concepts like social justice, and the disparate treatment of non-white people in the justice system, is not a part of the standard law school curriculum. It’s there, certainly, if you seek it out; it’s there in incredible, groundbreaking ways, and some of the best race and gender scholarship and activism in the United States is coming from the legal world. But it’s very easy to get through law school without having very much exposure to in-depth and challenging conversations about racial, gender and other inequalities."
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