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. 

Even if you vote for Obama, you’re still probably a racist, according to Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree, in his remarks at recent events like a panel discussion at my alma mater.   Ogletree, Obama’s top advisor on race issues, explains that since Obama is “biracial,” his election won’t prove that racism has receded.  White America won’t vote for blacks, Ogletree argues, and Obama’s election is possible only because he’s partly white.  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 has blamed America for 9/11.  Legal commentator Walter Olson notes that Ogletree has attracted controversy over his association with Al Sharpton and history of plagiarism.

On October 31, the Washington Examiner declared Charles Ogletree a “dim bulb” for his racially-charged remarks.

Ironically, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who has effusively praised Obama, had a different take on Obama’s white ancestry.

The Religious Left seeks to impose its authoritarian social agenda through lawsuits and other means.  They love speech codes, despite the fact that they are often utterly uncivil.  The most sanctimonious and insufferable people I have ever met in my life were students and faculty at Harvard Divinity School, whom I had the misfortune of meeting during my studies at Harvard Law School.

One divinity professor at Harvard, a devotee of feminist theological studies, was fond of saying in and out of class that the proper role of men in religion should be to “shut up for a milennium,” to offset milennia of “patriarchal” religion.

The pompous left-wing clergy and theology professors who participate in the Newsweek/Washington Post forum “On Faith“ share a similarly intolerant ideological bent, although they insult not only men, but also women, claiming that conservative women like Alaska Governor Sarah Palin are guilty of “hypocrisy” simply for considering themselves to be “women,” when their politics are not liberal.  (Ironically, at Harvard, the most liberal female students didn’t claim to be “women,” but rather “womyn” or “wimyn,” erroneously viewing the word “women” as being of patriarchal origin).

Harvard Divinity School students made my classmates at Harvard Law School, themselves a fractious and often dogmatically left-wing lot, look like a model of open-mindedness and civility by comparison.  Apparently, things aren’t much better at the University of Chicago, home to wackos like Wendy Doniger.

I’ve often taken positions that are at odds with the Religious Right.  But compared to the Religious Left, the Religious Right is tolerant, easy-going, and sensible.