Barack Obama’s association with radical Critical Race Theory professor Derrick Bell did not end after Harvard Law School--and certainly not at the April 24, 1990 rally at which Obama embraced Bell, literally and figuratively. Breitbart News has discovered a letter sent by Obama to Bell in February 1995 in which Obama asks Bell to review--and to blurb--an early version of Obama’s autobiography, then entitled Dreams of My Father.
The letter is preserved in the archives of New York
University, to which Bell donated his papers. The archives--which are
open to the public--include Bell’s papers from decades of research,
writing, teaching, and speaking. The website
for the archives lists some of Bell’s notable correspondents, but omits
Obama. Though the archives do not permit full publication without
permission of the copyright holder, some excerpts can be provided.
The letter, dated February 3, 1995, is on a letterhead
from Davis, Miner, Barnhill and Galland, the civil rights law firm that
hired Obama. Over two pages, Obama brings Bell up to date on his career
in Chicago, mentions that he is using Bell’s textbook with his own
students, and asks him for help in reviewing, and promoting, Dreams:
As for
me, I’m keeping busy in Chicago. I’m currently working at Davis, Miner,
Barnhill & Galland here in Chicago, a small firm specializing in
employment discrimination and voting rights/civil rights cases. I’m also
teaching a seminar on race and the law at the University of Chicago law
school -- your casebook has been an invaluable reference guide for
that.
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