speaking at CPAC on Fox News Channel last night
When they were done, the only new thing we thought we saw was a hug. (And even that was old news.)
The video in question is WGBH footage of the President in his Harvard Law days, speaking at a 1990 protest advocating increased diversity on the Harvard Law faculty. One of those faculty was law professor Derrick Bell, a constitutional scholar, civil-rights attorney, and one of the principal advocates of critical race theory. Bell had taken unpaid leave from the university until a Black woman was hired as a professor. Bell eventually left Harvard when his leave wasn't extended, but not before the future President spoke on his behalf. BuzzFeed's Andrew Kaczynski "scooped" the Breitbart folks before their FNC in their appearance last night, posting a clip in the morning.
When I watched it, I felt immediately as if I'd seen it before, and I was right. Along with likely millions of others, I saw this speech in part featured in the 2008 "Frontline" documentary, "The Choice." You can view the moment in question in the film, queued up here. Thanks to Andrew Golis, the director of digital and senior editor of "Frontline," you can see the young Obama's full speech, embedded below:
