Randall Kennedy

I certainly am against any efforts to remove it from the intellectual universe.

It is a part of our intellectual universe.

People ought to know about it, and people ought to debate it, and people ought to be free to make up their minds to conclude what they will about the strengths and weaknesses of critical race theory.

Yeah.

Well, my first book was a book called Race, Crime, and the Law.

1997.

1997.

Wow.

Time flies.

Time flies.

Unfortunately, unfortunately,

The impetus behind that book stands.

That book was propelled by a sense that with respect to the administration of criminal justice, African Americans are

feel deeply aggrieved, and they feel deeply aggrieved with good reason.

And they feel deeply aggrieved with good reason in at least two dimensions.

On the one hand, African Americans suffer from underprotection.

And in fact, in that book, the central theme of that book

was that black Americans suffer from underprotection.

If you take a look at the broad trajectory of American history and ask yourself, in what way have black Americans been most oppressed?

Well,