Randall Kennedy
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But is that stigma there?
Yes, it's there.
It is there.
I'll tell you another way in which it comes up from a student's point of view.
I'll never forget this.
It was in my second year of law school.
It was in tax class.
We had a very famous tax teacher, wonderful tax teacher.
On the very first day of class, Professor Bitker, wonderful man, wonderful teacher, Boris Bitker,
called on, the very first person he called on was a black student.
I remember this as if it were yesterday.
Called on a black student.
It was a black woman student.
And I remember when he called on her, I remember just, I felt, I felt as if the room got quieter.
Really, I felt as if the room got quieter and I know there was a real tenseness within me.
He didn't call on me, he called on somebody else, was a black woman student.
And I felt different.
I felt as if I was, I felt as if I was somehow
I felt as if my place, I felt as if my status was to some small degree at issue.
Just at issue.