Since spunky and chunky cub reporter Matt Boyle failed to bring him The Head of Eric Holder, Tucker Carlson was forced to find a place-holder for his front page in order to hang onto his readers who like their stories blah and half-white and Communist red all over.
Oh, look. here’s a story! Under the headline:
The Professor:
Obama’s law school course addressed ‘institutional racism in American society’
Tell us more:
A course description for “Current Issues in Racism and the Law,” a class Barack Obama taught at the University of Chicago Law School 12 times between 1992 and 2004, categorized race relations in the United States as “institutional racism in American society.”
Obama taught the two-hour seminar course more often than his other two classes, “Constitutional Law III: Equal Protection and Substantive Due Process” and “Voting Rights and the Democratic Process.” He taught those eight times beginning in 1996 and six times beginning in 1997, respectively.
This is affirmative action favoring the Racism class over the whiter and more qualified “Constitutional Law III” class.
It promised students they would “examine current problems in American race relations and the role the law has played in structuring the race debate.”
It also promised an examination of “the continued emphasis on statutory solutions to racism” that have been emphasized at the expense of “potentially richer political, economic, and cultural approaches.”
“[C]an minorities afford to shift their emphasis,” it asked, “given the continued prevalence of racism in society?”
“Can, and should, the existing concepts of American jurisprudence provide racial minorities more than formal equality through the courts?”
[...]
The course’s presumption that the legal profession has a duty to equalize minorities with the general population is a hallmark of Critical Race Theory, the academic idea that the law itself is an instrument of the powerful against the powerless, rather than an effort to seek justice.
The phrase “institutional racism” recalls the work of Derrick Bell, a controversial Harvard Law school professor whom Obama once introduced as a speaker during 1991 “diversity” protests at Harvard Law School, and whose Saturday seminars Obama attended as a law student.
New York Times reporter Jody Kantor released other materials from the course in 2008 showing that Obama taught Bell’s work, in particular Bell’s interpretations of seminal civil rights case law.
Hey. Wait a minute. Isn’t this the same stuff the Breitards were huffing and puffing about back in March when they were vettening the President for hugging a black man? Why, yes it is, but for some some reason or another it didn’t gain any traction back then. Is there any new NEW, MUST CREDIT TUCKER CARLSON red meat here for the base?
Reparations! The most favoritest of the “Ooga-Booga, they is comin’ fer our white wimmins and our gunz and our flat screens” set:
“A lot of the faculty was heavily Socratic in method, even in upper-level courses. Obama was demanding with questions, but he wouldn’t just stick on one student. It was a small seminar.”
It’s unclear how much of Obama’s views from a decade or more ago influence his conduct in office. None of the Obama students identified in the book discussed on the record what Obama taught or discussed in class.
But Obama’s views on the material he was teaching did leak out on occasion. Remnick quoted an unnamed former law student who said Obama supported racial reparations…
That’s it! Game changer! Here comes President Romn–
Oh wait. What?
…in theory, but found it unworkable in practice.
“He told us what he thought about reparations. He agreed entirely with the theory of reparations. But in practice he didn’t think it was really workable,” the former student said. “You could tell he thought he had let the cat out of the bag and felt uncomfortable.”
“To agree with reparations in theory,” the student continued, “means we go past apology and can actually change the dynamics of the country based on other situations where you saw reparations … As the complexities emerged — who is black, how far back do you go, what about recent immigrants still feeling racism, do they have a claim — finally, he [Obama] said, ‘That is why it’s unworkable.’”
Oh. Well… fuck. That’s not going to change America’s hearts and minds.
So did you hear about this Reverend Wright guy? Ho-lee shit. Lemme tell you about this guy…




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Good GOP almighty! Teaching a class by exploring an issue and discussing its complexities?! That’s just wrong, and both fascist and communist (if they weren’t already the same). If telling the students what to believe (the only right method) was good enough for all right-thinking people, it’s good enough for me. And you know about that “Socrates” guy (if that is his real name, which I doubt) – he went around corrupting kids and ended up being condemned to death for it, which just shows how terrible a person he was.
“Socrates” guy (if that is his real name, which I doubt)
That’s just his weird little internet friend name.
Tucker Carlson, still licking the bottom of the barrel for Breitbart’s used TP.
Wait! What??!!11 The blah POTUS said something in a class about blah people and and and and …
I’ll bet they even used “books”!
Damned liberal elites!
I think some part of Carlson died at this beatdown from Jon Stewart:
“How old are you”?
“35″
“and you are wearing a bow-tie!” (audience explodes in raucous laughter) followed up with:
“I am not saying you are not a smart guy. Those things are very difficult to tie…”
I don’t think he has ever been the same since.
Looks like we found the ‘common ground’ so necessary for a free and open society!
Obama doesn’t think reparations for past racial injustices are appropriate, and neither does the Republikkkan mainstream base. They only differ on the specific reasons why.
See, bi-partisanship at its most noble stance. Amurka, fuck yeah!!!
What would all those urban blahs do with a mule and forty acres, anyway?
At this point, analyzing Carlson and the Breitbart pink slime factory is like watching Beavis and Butthead, minus the humor.
Carlson is that yappy little hanger-on you kept trying to avoid in college, the one who wanted to attach to you like a remora so they could get into the cool parties. Didn’t work then, ain’t working now.
I’ve seen Tucker on TV recently without the bow tie; such a fashion risk for him since without it he’s unrecognizable as anything other than Douchebag #4 in any scene he happens to be in.
He said “reparations!” I’m telling Mom!
That “Dancing with the Tard” photo up top is unsettling…
Carlson said Obama taught a course about racism in the United States.
Okay, I give up. What was Carlson’s point?
That is so racist against Tucker and his fellow members of the homo sociapathis race. Disgusting!
I have bad/good news. SHAKIRA IS PREGNANT!
So her hips DO lie.
Oh, fuck you tblogg! I was planning on eating again this month.