America’s future lawyers believe any position on affirmative action that does not affirm it is racist and deserves to be immediately shot down by any means necessary. When Ilya Shapiro, a constitutional law professor at Georgetown, dared question affirmative action, his students rioted in his class, stomping on desks and shouting “black lawyers matter.” His students were overwhelmingly white. Shaprio is on administrative leave right now because of a ‘racist tweet.’
WATCH: Hostile law students shout down constitutional law scholar who criticized affirmative action
From www.thecollegefix.com
2022-03-03 05:07:19
Margaret Kelly – Assistant Editor
Excerpt:
University of California law students bang on desks, use vulgarities, chant ‘black lawyers matter’
Ilya Shapiro, the constitutional law scholar put on administrative leave at Georgetown University following a tweet widely decried as racist, was prevented from participating in a discussion Tuesday at UC Hastings College of the Law about the recent Supreme Court vacancy.
Protesters pounded on desks and shouted “Black lawyers matter,” videos show. Some students held signs that read “Support Black Women,” “I Am Not Lesser,” and “Ketanji Brown Jackson,” a reference to President Joe Biden’s recent Supreme Court nominee.
Georgetown Law suspended Shapiro, an incoming administrator, in February following a tweet in which he criticized President Biden’s pledge to nominate only black women to fill the vacancy to be left by Justice Stephen Breyer.
National Review, which reviewed a 45-minute video of the encounter, reports that the…
