Word: belle
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...withdrawing from HLS, Bell does his part to deprive students of the opportunity to benefit from a diverse faculty--the very opportunity for which CCR is suing...
Moreover, if Black professors who applied for a position at HLS and were turned down felt discriminated against, they would be the first to take legal action. Since this has not happened, the protests of Bell and CCR do Harvard an injustice by claiming that the school is biased...
...BELL HAD any sense, or any real concern for civil rights, he would realize that the major problem is the small size of the pool of Black candidates in the first place. This most likely arises from educational discrepancies between Black and white students, often in the pre-college years...
Instead of sitting back and talking to the media about his heroic protest, Bell should go back and try to provide his Black law students with the best education possible, so that 10 years from now, they can increase the size of the pool of Black professors. Or he should quit and go educate the poor Black children who are the true victims of educational discrimination...
...things stand now, merely luring another Black professor to HLS would cover up the real source of the diversity dilemma: not hiring discrepancies in adulthood, but educational ones in childhood. All that Bell and CCR are doing now is diverting attention away from more important civil rights issues. Bell a civil rights martyr...