Harvard Law ⚖️ has 19 first-year Black students in 2024; 📉 lowest number since 1965 following 2023 SCOTUS decision banning affirmative action
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You dont know anything about legal careers, especially for black attorneys.
In fact, the entire premise of the show “The Good Fight” show was that black law firms have to take smaller cases with lower profile and opportunities.
The Good Fight - Wikipedia
Whenever you next need legal services are forced to rely on a racist cac lawyer who doesn't care about your freedom. You will be motivated to get out and vote. Unfortunately by that point you probably won't have to right to vote.
Black people deserve the opportunity to have black representation. Doesn't matter to me if an Asian student got better grades, if i can't depend on them to fight for me.
The system is messed up anyway. I got straight A's in my first few semesters of high school. 4.0 gpa. But i heard about people graduated with 5.0 Gpa's. Which isn't even possible at my school. Apparently GPA is weighted by difficulty of the classes, but black people don't get to go to the best schools to begin with so even our best students are literally playing at a 1 gpa point disadvantage. Which the DEI program was to supposed to account for. Only kids that go the best private schools will be getting into harvard law now.
Black people deserve the opportunity to have black representation. Doesn't matter to me if an Asian student got better grades, if i can't depend on them to fight for me.
The system is messed up anyway. I got straight A's in my first few semesters of high school. 4.0 gpa. But i heard about people graduated with 5.0 Gpa's. Which isn't even possible at my school. Apparently GPA is weighted by difficulty of the classes, but black people don't get to go to the best schools to begin with so even our best students are literally playing at a 1 gpa point disadvantage. Which the DEI program was to supposed to account for. Only kids that go the best private schools will be getting into harvard law now.
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Vandelay
Life is absurd. Lean into it.
While I hear you, if our determination, good will, and tenacity was the only thing holding us back I'd be with you. This isn't just white people being put in place, it's white people who were specifically chosen because they inherently see us as inferior.
All things being equal, we will NEVER get the benefit of the doubt. We will NEVER get the benefit of a being "given a shot", because the people in place will already have a predisposition/bias and at worst a "hatred" and "contempt" for blacks. A lot of white people are only comfortable with black people in a subservient condition. A lot of Trump's appointees and adjacent sycophants believe in race science. You can't argue with people like that.
If Harvard is serious about reversing its trend they may need to give Stanford Law a call.
“At Stanford, for example, the number of Black first-year students nearly doubled to 23 this year, from 12 last year”.
“At Stanford, for example, the number of Black first-year students nearly doubled to 23 this year, from 12 last year”.
When you have no black intellect class to wage the nuanced battles in high places, it will get spooky.
You dont know anything about legal careers, especially for black attorneys.
In fact, the entire premise of the show “The Good Fight” show was that black law firms have to take smaller cases with lower profile and opportunities.
The Good Fight - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
I get what you’re saying, and I know that Black law firms often have a hard time getting good cases. Why not do a couple things like - find more funding through grants, set up mentoring programs with experienced lawyers, and make sure people know how talented Black attorneys are. Working with bigger firms could help them share resources too, and getting involved in the community might open up more chances for them. These ideas could help not just in law, but in other professions too. The end of DEI doesn’t mean there’s no chance for progress.
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And now if more than 19 black get in next year, they’ll be an audit. Welcome to the future
racially specific grants are illegal, recently
I’m sure you didn’t know this.
For black only lawyers?
Yeah, now thats illegal
Again, this is increasingly illegal
Corporations have eliminated entire minority focused contracting opportunities and federal agencies are handcuffed from doing so
You’re speaking in general because you really haven’t grasped how fukked we are right now.
no they wont
I’ve tried warning people. The black labor class is in its last period of growth and prosperity for most of your lifetimes. This might be the apex we see for generations. It’s going to go downhill for a lot of elite black opportunities and access to resources.
As long as that number is not zero, the white supremacists and their pets will still think it's too high
Yup
"He argued that the drop in Black enrollment at Harvard and U.N.C. might ultimately be beneficial, “because those students are going to go to another school where they’re better matched and they’re poised to succeed.”
Mr. Sander is one of the architects of the hotly disputed “mismatch” theory, which holds that students do better at schools that closely match their credentials on entry tests and grades. He argued that students who ended up at less competitive schools would more likely receive higher grades and pass the bar at higher rates.
“Students prefer going to a school where they are not going to get a preference, because they think they’ll be more competitive there, which I think is true,” Mr. Sander said.
Mr. Sander said he agreed with critics who warned that a drop in the number of Black lawyers would be bad for society. But he said that the opposite seemed to be happening and that there could, on the contrary, be an increase in the number of Black lawyers."
Potentially a win win situation. If you consider more black lawyers a win for black people. More black people need to become brilliant when it comes to the law. But black lawyers doesnt personally move the needle for me. What are they doing with that legal knowledge is what matters. We have inmates acting as prison lawyers doing more for black people than these Harvard Lawyers
.We don't NEED intellect tho
We need TANGIBLES
This is a move in the right direction. Now that they've gutted Black admissions, the road is open for ADOS/FBA/U34G
