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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFormer UChicago Law Students Say Scalia Was A 'Blatant Racist' Professor
Several former black students at the University of Chicago Law School, where Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia served as a law professor from 1977 to 1982, say they remember the justice, who passed away last month, as a blatant racist who treated black students, and their work, as less-than.
Arnim Johnson, who wrote about his time as Scalias student in a widely shared Facebook post, said one year Scalia flunked every black student who took his class.
The school administration passed on taking any action, since the actual facts regarding his intent could not be adduced in a tribunal. However, what he thought of black people was indisputable, and believe me it was nothing nice, Johnson wrote.
Arnim Johnson, who wrote about his time as Scalias student in a widely shared Facebook post, said one year Scalia flunked every black student who took his class.
The school administration passed on taking any action, since the actual facts regarding his intent could not be adduced in a tribunal. However, what he thought of black people was indisputable, and believe me it was nothing nice, Johnson wrote.
http://chicagoist.com/2016/02/29/black_former_law_students_of_scalia.php
Not too surprising. It really sucks.
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Former UChicago Law Students Say Scalia Was A 'Blatant Racist' Professor (Original Post)
mucifer
Mar 2016
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kwassa
(23,340 posts)1. and he completely got away with it.
Scalia was a law professor of mine, and was on the faculty of the U of Chicago the entire three years I attended. The law school is one of the smallest in the country, housed in one building and relatively intimate as graduate schools go. While I was there, Scalia was outed as a blatant racist to the extent that the Black American Law Students Association (BALSA) chapter at the law school brought it to the attention of acting Dean Norval Morris in several meetings. Scalia flunked every black student who took his classes that year. Nobody flunks courses in elite law schools. Its unheard of. He flunked one brother so badly, it skewered his grade average, and he became the first, last, and only student in the history of the school to repeat first year. That man went on to become a repected military judge. Ultimately, no action was taken because the source of the information was private, confidential and privileged, and Scalias racist attitude and actions toward black students could be plausibly denied, but just barely. He stuck with his story that he had graded blindly, but it came out that Scalia had done the same thing, when he was on the faculty at the U of Virginia. However, Scalia was an academic star actively politicking for a federal judgeship with national political connections, as well as being quite personable. The school administration passed on taking any action, since the actual facts regarding his intent could not be adduced in a tribunal. However, what he thought of black people was indisputable, and believe me it was nothing nice. Being a swarthy, son of poor Sicilian immmigrants, and intent on becoming an all-American white man, he was consumed with putting as much space between himself and Negroes as possible, and becoming an honorary member of the WASP elite.
Skittles
(153,150 posts)2. Scalia was a racist, partisan hack
WHY do certain people insist he was brilliant? TOTAL BULLSHIT.
tblue37
(65,336 posts)3. Remember Andrew Sullivan's comment about Newt Gingrich? Sullivan said that
Gingrich is a dumb person's idea of what a smart person sounds like.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)4. +1000. nt