Chuck Bryant

Right.

Yeah, for sure.

It's a white male profession, essentially, statistically speaking, that is far and away the largest population represented in the legal profession in the United States.

And there's statistics and figures that kind of show the disparity here.

There's some data from 2021 from the American Bar Association.

that showed that white law school graduates passed on their first try at the bar exam at a rate 24% higher than black students, 13% higher than Hispanic students, and 15% higher than Native Americans.

So those are really substantial disparities in passing the bar the first time.

And so being in the hot seat, the National Conference of Bar Examiners is like, hey, hey, hey, everybody mellow out here.

This tracks with other scoring of racial disparities, like law school grades, LSAT grades.

This is in line with them.

Just leave the bar exam alone.

And by the way, their interpretation is that this is an example of longstanding systemic racial disparities in the American education system that start way back long before somebody gets to law school and goes to take the bar.

And the bar exam is just showing this.

It's just reflecting this problem elsewhere.

So again, stop looking at the bar is essentially what the NCBE says.

It also kind of sounds like we're just a part of the grand history of systemic discrimination throughout our country.

Well, that's a critique of them, too.

People are like, that's your answer?

Like, we're just perpetuating an already existing racial disparity.

Like, that's essentially what they're saying in that argument.