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Derrick Bell, Obama's inspiration, writes B movie script


Derrick Bell is in the news because he is the subject of a speech Obama made defending him at a protest at Harvard in 1990s. Bell wrote a short story, which became part one of this trilogy on HBO.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2012/03/07/derrick-bell-obama-w right-farrakhan-hbo-blaxploitation, links to online video.

Bell was one of the chief proponents of Critical Race Theory, a radical doctrine that holds that American legal institutions—including our civil rights laws—perpetuate white supremacy.

Bell’s ideas were not only radical, but bizarre. After leaving Harvard (he resigned in 1992), he wrote a racialist, antisemitic fictional essay titled “The Space Traders,” which Ninth Circuit judge Alex Kozinski described in the New York Times with disgust: (continued)

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