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As a country, we are in a state of denial about issues of race and racism. And too many of our leaders have concluded that the way to remedy racism is to simply stop talking about race.
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Most people ask questions because they want to know the answer; lawyers are trained never to ask questions unless they already know the answer.
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In a racially divided society, majority rule is not a reliable instrument of democracy.
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The tyranny of The Majority is just as much a problem of silencing minority viewpoints as it is of excluding minority representatives or preferences. We cannot all talk at once, but that does not mean only one group should get to speak. We can take turns.
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Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.
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Lani Guinier
Born:
April 19, 1950
Died:
January 7, 2022
(aged 71)
Bio:
Lani Guinier was an American civil rights theorist. She was the Bennett Boskey Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the first woman of color appointed to a tenured professorship there.
Known for:
The miner's canary (2002)
Becoming gentlemen (1997)
Who's Qualified? (2001)
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