Martin Luther King had a dream: that one day America would rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." He also dreamt that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners would be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.Professor Derrick Bell doesn’t have dreams, at least not like Martin Luther King’s.
Obama asked while at Harvard Law School to "open your hearts and open your minds to the words of Professor Derrick Bell."
Professor Derrick Bell is perhaps the one of the biggest promoters of a nasty racialist legal theory called Critical Race Theory.
Critical Race Theory, ironically and in a very reminiscent of Marxism – Hegelian way, views the entire structure and superstructure of America as an inherently racist one, no matter the success of the civil rights struggle. Bell said to Rodney King (the one who was shockingly brutalized by the L.A. Police) that blacks and whites “would never get along.” Following this reasoning and in the professor own words, whites will be oppressors, even liberal whites. Blacks will always be victims; therefore they would always need special treatment, not real equality.
In a nutshell, this doctrine has a very defeatist view of blacks, as it perceives them as inherently incompetent. It is as racist as anything a klansman can spout.
This is the man and thus the doctrine, Barack Obama the Harvard law professor asked to embrace.
Therefore, there is no hope and change, no racial unifier president. According this worldview, there will be no real integration or reconciliation, only special entitlements and paradoxically, an imperceptible but permanent segregation between humans, because of permanent victim status of one group.
It’s more like MLK’s anti-dream. A nightmare. That’s the hopeychangey thing for you.
