(Breitbart) — Earlier today, Buzzfeed’s Ben Smith announced on Twitter that video researcher Andrew Kaczynski had released “the mysterious Harvard/Obama/race video that the Breitbart folks have been talking about.”
The video, which Kaczynski says was “licensed from a Boston television station,” shows a young Barack Obama leading a protest at Harvard Law School on behalf of Prof. Derrick Bell, a radical academic tied to Jeremiah Wright–about whom we will be releasing significant information in the coming hours.
However, the video has been selectively edited–either by the Boston television station or by Buzzfeed itself. Over the course of the day, Breitbart.com will be releasing additional footage that has been hidden by Obama’s allies in the mainstream media and academia.
Breitbart.com Editor-in-Chief Joel Pollak and Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro will appear on The Sean Hannity Show to discuss the tape. The full tape will be released tonight on Fox News’ Hannity.   (Breitbart.com)
A newly discovered video tape shows President Obama delivering a speech about Professor Derrick Bell who was the originator of the radical “Critical Race Theory” and who Obama aligned himself with while he was a student at Harvard. It was perhaps Barack Obama’s most intense immersion in the charged campus racial politics of the late 1980s and early 1990s: As President of the Harvard Law Review in the spring of his final year there, 1990, he aligned himself with Professor Derrick Bell’s dramatic protest for diversity on the faculty of Harvard Law School.
(BuzzFeed) Bell was the first black tenured professor at the school, and a pioneer of “critical race theory,” which insisted, controversially, on reading issues of race and power into legal scholarship. His protest that spring was occasioned by Harvard’s denial of tenure to a black woman professor, Regina Austin, at a time when only three of the law school’s professors were black and only five women. He told Harvard he would take a leave of absence — a kind of academic strike — “until a woman of color is offered and accepted a tenured position on this faculty,” and he launched a hunger strike to dramatize his point. (read more)

When “new discoveries” like this present themselves,  perhaps it is wise to pause, take a moment and remind ourselves of what we do, and do-not, know about the life and times of an unvetted Obama.    So today as this new video is shared, perhaps it is good to pause and reflect upon the odd series of events that led to Barack Obama Jr.  becoming  the prestigious President/Editor of the Harvard Law Review.
Now to understand this consideration we must explain the importance. Attending Harvard Law School is a remarkable accomplishment in and of itself. Just getting accepted into the program is incredibly difficult, only about 1 in 2,400 applicants are currently able to gain entry into the school. It takes incredibly top-notch grades, exemplary recommendations, both personal and academically professional, and it takes a lot of money. A LOT of money. Harvard Law School is considered “THE” law school within the academia of judiciary education not only in the United States but worldwide. Just attending Harvard Law is an accomplishment in itself.
However, within the realm of The Harvard School of Law, to become the student President/Editor (*note the term “President” and “Editor” are analogous) of the Harvard Law Review is the ultimate accomplishment. A select and rare few are ever able to hold the prestigious title of “President” for the HLR. It is a position held by only one law student at a time, and the status of President is the prize known only to the brightest, most capable, and brilliant of all student minds in attendance.
What a Law Review Does. Law reviews, which are edited by students, play a double role at law schools, providing a chance for students to improve their legal research and writing, and at the same time offering judges and scholars a forum for new legal arguments. The Harvard Law Review is generally considered the most widely cited of the student law reviews.
Until the 1970′s the editors, or Presidents, were picked on the basis of grades, and the president of the Law Review was the student with the highest academic rank. Among these were Elliot L. Richardson, the former Attorney General, and Irwin Griswold, a dean of the Harvard Law School and Solicitor General under Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon. So it is absolutely, without a doubt, a resume’ point without comparison and definitely a reason for the media to espouse the incredible brilliance of one who has held such title. In short, as Joe Biden would put it, “this is a big effen’ deal”. Got it? OK, so lets look at the qualification for Obama to become President of the Harvard Law Review.
Obama graduated from Columbia College in 1983 at the age of 21, and after spending a year in New York, moved to Chicago. According to his own telling, and his autobiography we know the timeframe from May/June 1983 through 1984 he remained in New York. Returning to Chicago sometime in 1984 until he attended Harvard Law School in 1988. By his own admission Obama was a less than average student at Occidental College (Freshman, Sophomore years 1979-1981), and even when he went to Columbia in September 1982 to May 1983 he was, again, according to his own statements, “an average student”. So how did he get accepted into Harvard? This is the question that has the main stream media calling Donald Trump a racist, and all would be curious citizens are similarly labeled. The media have never once asked this question. EVER.
So we have to slueth it up ourselves. In late March 2008, former Manhattan Borough president Percy Sutton told a New York cable channel that a former business partner who was “raising money” for Obama had approached him in 1988 to help Obama get into Harvard Law School.
In this video interview, Sutton says he first heard of Obama about twenty years ago from Khalid Al-Mansour, who Sutton described as advisor to “one of the world’s richest men,” Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal.

(*NOTE* Prince Alwaleed catapulted to fame in the United States after the September 11 attacks, when New York mayor Rudy Guiliani refused his $10 million check to help rebuild Manhattan, because the Saudi prince hinted publicly that America’s pro-Israel policies were to blame for the attacks.)

Sutton knew Al-Mansour well, since the two men had been business partners and served on several corporate boards together. As Sutton remembered, Al-Mansour was raising money for Obama’s education and seeking recommendations for him to attend Harvard Law School.

“I was introduced to (Obama) by a friend who was raising money for him,” Sutton told NY1 city hall reporter Dominic Carter. “The friend’s name is Dr. Khalid al-Mansour, from Texas.”

Apparently, al-Mansour serves on the Board of, among others, Saudi African Bank and was responsible for the Africa investment activities of Kingdom Holdings, Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal’s investment company. So it appears that Obama reached out to several politically “connected” and highly “influencial” mega-rich “King Makers” for help in attaining entry to Harvard. This is where the big Donald Trump question comes in to play. And it is a significant, and reasonable question. “If” Harvard entry was facilitated by leverage and influence attained from foreign sources that would now benefit from the Obama administration, the question needs to be answered. The only way to answer the question, and the question is valid, is to release the application, admittance, and school records, including any letters of recommendation or influence to the admissions board. There is nothing “racist” about insuring the absence of a “conflict of interest” in the office of the President. PERIOD.
Harvard Law – Even though Obama’s Columbia grades fall below the Harvard norm, likely even below the affirmative action-adjusted black norm at Harvard, Obama began Harvard Law School in 1988 at the age of 27. Friends say he did not want anyone to assume they knew his mind and because of that, even those close to him did not always know exactly where he stood.
“He then and now is very hard to pin down,” said Kenneth Mack, a classmate and now a professor at the law school, referring to the senator’s on-the-one-hand, on-the-other-hand style. Mack added, “Obama stood out from the beginning. He seemed more mature. Everyone understood he was a liberal. He didn’t hide that.”
(In 2008 during the presidential campaign it was noted by the press that all the yearbooks for the year Obama graduated have been yanked from Harvard’s library, but shockingly the insufferable press never pushed the issue)
Harvard Law Review – On February 6th, 1990, Obama became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. The job is considered the highest student position at Harvard Law School. He managed to serve as president of the Harvard Law Review without ever publishing a SINGLE piece of signed, written work — not one! Obama did do interviews and *Politico claims that a single unsigned — and previously unattributed — 1990 article was produced by Obama and offers a glimpse at his views on abortion policy and the law during his student days, and provides a rare addition to his body of work.
The six-page summary, tucked into the third volume of the year’s Harvard Law Review, considers the charged, if peripheral, question of whether fetuses should be able to file lawsuits against their mothers. Obama’s answer: No.
*Left leaning Politico was asked how they knew the document was produced by Obama, since it is “unsigned and previously never unattributed.” They never responded.
Obama’s timing, however, was better than his writing. In the same spring 1990 term that he would stand for the presidency, the Harvard Law School found itself embroiled in an explosive racial brouhaha. Black firebrand law professor Derrick Bell was demanding that the Harvard Law School appoint a black woman to the law faculty. This protest would culminate in vigils and protests by the racially sensitive student body, in the course of which Obama would compare the increasingly absurd Bell to Rosa Parks.
Feeling the pressure, Harvard Law Review editors wanted to elect their first African American president. Barack Obama had an advantage. Having been spared the legacy of slavery and segregation, and having grown up in a white household, he lacked the hard edge embedded in the ideology of many of his black colleagues.

“Obama cast himself as an eager listener,” the New York Times reported, “sometimes giving warring classmates the impression that he agreed with all of them at once.”

In February 1990, after an ideologically charged all day affair, Obama’s fellow editors elected him president from among 19 candidates. As it happened, Obama prevailed only after the HLR’s small conservative faction threw him its support. Obama was elected after a meeting of the review’s 80 editors that convened Sunday and lasted until early this morning, a participant said.

Curiously, once elected, Obama contributed, nothing, not one signed word to the Harvard Law Review, or any other law journal. NOT ONE. As Matthew Franck has pointed out in National Review Online, “A search of the HeinOnline database of law journals turns up exactly nothing credited to Obama in any law review anywhere at any time.” To understand the significance of this manuscriptive void, you have to consider that NO-ONE in the prior history of the Harvard Law Review had ever been elected President-Editor without publication. Never. All previous Presidents were heavily publicized and referenced. It was, and is, one of the key qualifications for consideration. In addition EVERY SINGLE President prior to Obama, and since Obama, has published works in the review while they were President/Editor.
After his appointment, the NY Times carried a story in February 1990, which included a few quotes from Obama:

“The fact that I’ve been elected shows a lot of progress,” Mr. Obama said today in an interview. “It’s encouraging.” “But it’s important that stories like mine aren’t used to say that everything is O.K. for blacks. You have to remember that for every one of me, there are hundreds or thousands of black students with at least equal talent who don’t get a chance,” he said, alluding to poverty or growing up in a drug environment…

On his goals in his new post, Mr. Obama said:

“I personally am interested in pushing a strong minority perspective. I’m fairly opinionated about this. But as president of the law review, I have a limited role as only first among equals.” Therefore, Mr. Obama said, he would concentrate on making the review a “forum for debate,” bringing in new writers and pushing for livelier, more accessible writing.

Unlike most editors, and likely all its presidents, Obama was not a writer. During his tenure at Harvard, he might have written one heavily edited, unsigned note. This note however, as mentioned, is unattributed, so there really is no definative way to assign it to Obama. But, for the sake of consideration let us proceed with the assumption that “Politico” discovered some way, they would not divulge, to find provenance, and attribute it to Obama. In this note for the third volume of the 1990 HLR, whoever wrote it argued against any limits on abortion, citing the government’s interest in “preventing increasing numbers of children from being born in to lives of pain and despair.” Again, even that note within the HLR was unsigned.
Well, it appears the new selection system for the Editor position, heavily disputed when it began, was meant to help insure that minority students became editors of The Law Review. And, “presto”, it worked!
In other words, Obama appears to have been the first affirmative action President of the Harvard Law Review.

So where does that leave us?

• How did Barack Obama Jr., the average grade student, gain admission to Harvard?
• Who provided the recommendations for his original application? Five years after Columbia School graduation (so probably not prior professors).
• What were his Columbia grades that the admission board would have considered?
• What other factors were present in the determination of acceptance at that time?
• Was affirmative action the reason Barack Obama became the first Black President/Editor of the Harvard Law Review?
• Why is it he was able to be selected to President of the HLR without ANY published works?
• Careful. If these questions make sense, you might also be called “Racist”.

And how exactly was he able to afford this school? Harvard? But, alas, that question is also for another day….. where absent of transparency, we would have to research Tax Returns looking for interest deductions on student loans to show evidence of them…. huh?
And for those of you who are in the trenches, trying to do the hard thing well, trying to look for honest answers to thest questions and getting beaten up by those who would diminish your questions, watch this video from Bill Whittle. Bill explains in passionate terms why “reasonable” Americans should not fear asking these questions. He hits on the subject for todays topic also toward the end of the video. Enjoy, and remember YOU ARE NOT ALONE.…