With all the recent fuss over the man – instead of what should be praise or study – we thought it appropriate to re-post our interview with the late, great Derrick Bell. All he did was tell the truth… “If the nation’s policies towards blacks were revised to require weekly, random round-ups of several hundred blacks who were then taken to a secluded place and shot, that policy would be more dramatic, but hardly different in result, than the policies now in effect, which most of us feel powerless to change.” Derrick Bell joined the show this week.*** A founder of Critical Race Theory, leading legal expert and law professor Bell discussed the law and its role in the “permanence of racism.” All this plus many more surprises in this week’s “redux.”
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*** Originally aired July 3, 2008
I think I am going to start referring to Obama as le séducteur… its amazing the amount of black minds that have been seduced by his celebrity.
Ha! People now see Obomba hugging Bell back in the day and don’t know who Bell was or what he thought of the prez. Our interview turns out to again be timely!
JBAll,
Super interview of a true iconic Black man who BTW was my kid’s mentor in NYU Law School.
The volume level was a bit low on this. I had to download it, plug it into Audacity and raise the level to be able to hear it….