Willie Brown: How I Got Into Law School

Politician, attorney and civil rights activist, Willie L. Brown, Jr. describes how he got into law school in this sixth of ten excerpts from the NVLP Oral History Archive. To learn more about Willie Brown, visit http://www.visionaryproject.org/brownwillie

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[Astutechick]

@sbtbfanatic Big freaking deal!!! Deal with it and worry about yourself. And I highly doubt that you attend a top law school. You sound way too much like a lonely internet flamer without a life!!! What kind of ivy league law school student has time to surf the net to troll YT?!

[sbtbfanatic]

@Astutechick You are an idiot! I attended a top law school, so I am well-aware of how much easier it is for a black applicant to gain admittance than it is for a white or asian applicant.

[Astutechick]

@sbtbfanatic Eat a dick you fucking loser!!! Its not my fault you aren’t smart enough nor disciplined enough to make it in life!!

[ray1411]

@sbt Ive read my nonblack counterparts work wondering how they earned high marks. I mean, yes, their work was good but I found holes in their argument--from beginning to end. Ive had professors accept late work from nonblack students and hassle me for doing the same. You cannot entrust a state like CA, where nonblacks make up the overwhelming majority (i.e., whites are 60% and Asians are 12%,), with the decision on whether affirmative action is necessary. Black people are 2%; they cant win.

[ray1411]

@sbt Undeserved? How do you deserve fair treatment? Its funny how you ignored my theory on, if they did allot extra points to black candidates, then perhaps it was to counteract unfair grading practices. What is fair? Little Molly Ringwald receiving an "A" for simply writing papers based a common interest she has with the professor, or Leroy Jones writing a paper with less grammatical errors, more sources, and a more challenging thesis, yet he earned a "B+". Ive experienced this firsthand.

[ray1411]

@sbtbfanatic How do you know its not "common myth" instead of "common knowledge"? People tend to believe what theyve heard over and over again. And when it comes to black people and admissions to anything, nonblack people tend to presume leniency was accorded in their admissions process. This has been the case since the 70s, and even grew more popular in the 80s and 90s; in the new millenium, many nonblacks have grown to accept it as an aside to race relations. Its not as important, right now.

[ray1411]

@sbt Its the former. My race has nothing to do with verification, an idiot will accept anyones account of the truth. And sorry, going to a top ranked university where "all" the black students LSAT scores were lower than everyone elses does not substantiate your claim. Thats hearsay. How do you know they "all" had lower scores? It couldnt have been "all," theres never 100% of anything. Did you read everyones application? People, regardless of race, tend to withhold their actual scores.

[sbtbfanatic]

@ray1411 You are either black yourself or you are a damned moron. I went to a top law school and can tell you that the black students in my class all have LSAT scores that were an average of about 8-10 points lower than those of the rest of the students - this is common knowledge of anyone who has attended a competitive law school. California voters actually passed Prop. 209 to end the undeserved racial set-asides that black students had been receiving at public Universities.

[ray1411]

Oh yeah, going by his BT (the New Yorker) story, country negroes have been beating out city negroes for a long time. Willie had a better understading of how the world works. That and, for better or worse, a healthy dose of yesteryears affiermative action policies helpled Willie make something of himself; the same policies Willie didnt fight tooth and nail to eliminate in Prop 209s campaign.

[ray1411]

@sbt Substantiate your claim: Either cite a reference or quote a major figurehead in law school admissions. If you can do neither, then shut the fuck up. Its all myth. And if it is true, then maybe law schools are counteracting disparties in GPAs. Which, by the way, could be attributed to unfair grading practices. Like, many nonblack students earn higher grades because their response to the cirriculum is more in line with the nonblack professors who are, typically, in the majorit. Understand?