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...Muhammad Kenyatta, president of the Black Law Students Association (BSLA) yesterday hailed the selection of two Blacks to the Review as "a step toward normally." The total number of Black editors on the Review staff has not exceeded four in the last five years, Kenyatta said...
...Review ought to be open, like all journals, based on participation," Kenyatta said. But he added that BSLA considered the Law Review issue less significant than other current minority concerns at the Law School...
...Muhammad Kenyatta, President Harvard Black Law Students Association Harvard Law School...
Whether Vorenberg's letter fueled the journalistic fires or not, others believe it alone is not sufficient to account for the sort of media fascination the subject commanded--a media fascination that brought the story to headlines as far away as Honolulu, and placed Kenyatta and a supporter of Greenberg in debate on a recent edition of the Today Show. Stern attributes some of the story's popularity to the Law School administration's success in "framing" the issue for popular consumption. "The students didn't have time to structure a public relations approach as the administration did," he says...
...Kenyatta also charges the press attention to a national media that is right now on the prowl for stories that will discredit the affirmative action attempts of minority groups. "Generally, in this country there is a mood that says that affirmative action is reverse racism," he says. "What I saw in the press is the same thing I see on T.V., when folks in Boston complain that the only problem in their lives is that Blacks are getting ahead...