The Washington Examiner today declared Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree, a top adviser to Obama and likely future Assistant Attorney General, to be the “dim bulb” of the day for his racially-charged remarks branding America as a racist country:
“During an Oct. 25 panel discussion on race at Harvard, this top Barack Obama adviser said the U.S. should still be considered a racist nation even if the Illinois Senator is elected to the White House because Obama ‘happens to be biracial.’ So even if a majority of Americans vote for him, it won’t count. WHY IT’S DIM: Ogletree’s comments conjured up the discredited ‘one drop rule’ laws adopted by many Southern states during the Jim Crow era that were used to segregate the races. CURE: Take Martin Luther King Jr.’s advice and judge people by their character, not their color.” (Washington Examiner, Oct. 31, 2008, at page 15).
Even if you vote for Obama, you’re still probably a racist, according to Professor Ogletree. White America won’t vote for blacks, Ogletree argues, and Obama’s election is possible only because he’s partly white. Even Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, in his endorsement of Obama, was more optimistic about race relations than Ogletree.
The ABA Journal predicts that Ogletree, who has long advocated race-based reparations, will be the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Civil Rights Division during the Obama administration.
Ogletree is controversial for his history of plagiarism and association with Al Sharpton.
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This guy is a dimwit.. Harvard educated and he does not know the definition of a racist. Having a racially biased person in charge of civil rights, well get ready for the third world….
Charles Ogletree is the racist, how can he speak for White America when he is black? How can he say that Obama election is possible because he partically white? That is redicalious! Obama is a good canidate, not because he is partial white as this racist puts it. It’s because he was the best man for the job regaurdless of his race! Charles Ogletree is a black Hitler and needs to go back to school to get a real education about the “Human Race!”