jknowgood
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They forget that one of the first slave owners was black.Had not white males treated blacks like second class citizens, there would have been no need for affirmative action, same with how white males treated white women...Until the 1970's the editors were picked on the basis of grades, and the president of the Law Review was the student with the highest academic rank. Among these were Elliot L. Richardson, the former Attorney General, and Irwin Griswold, a dean of the Harvard Law School and Solicitor General under Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon.
That system came under attack in the 1970's and was replaced by a program in which about half the editors are chosen for their grades and the other half are chosen by fellow students after a special writing competition. The new system, disputed when it began, was meant to help insure that minority students became editors of The Law Review.
Remember that slavery started in africa...blacks selling and owning other blacks AND in this country, right on through the civil war. So this nonsense about affirmative action is laughable.