Overheard in the Classroom - Part 1

I think it's pretty obvious that LaTowna is in favor of, say, affirmative action and antidiscrimination laws. Still, I can also appreciate healthy debate and don't personally hate opponents of either affirmative action or antidiscrimination laws. What I do hate, however, is when opponents' rationale for abolishing either is that "racism no longer exists." For people that believe that, we give you the "Overheard in the Classroom" series of actual comments from classroom discussion here at our very own St. Anford Law School.

The first comment that made the series:

"There are 2 types of Mexicans: the 'Gucci' Mexicans and then the real 'regular' Mexicans that we're actually used to dealing with."

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Overheard on the campus of St. Anford: a white boy running mad game on some breezy.

Actual transcript:

White boy: I know sooo much math, it's not even funny.
White girl: Let's go back to your place.

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I was having some drinks with Nigeri-Negro and some Token White Folks That Are Surprisingly Cool the other weekend. We had driven from St. Anford to my hometown about 45 minutes away and, as the night wore on, it became evident that I had had too much tequila and Nigeri-Negro had had too much cognac. Our friends offered their couches but since I was the one who had driven, it was ultimately my call. Being the libra that I am, I was totally indecisive. Nigeri-Negro, being the entreprenig that he is, declared that he had come up with the solution:

"LaTowna, you just drive until we get pulled over--then I've got it from there."

I don’t know what troubles me more: the fact that the ad hoc “plan” included us getting pulled over, or the fact that we probably would have gotten pulled over anyways (it was OPD after all). You know, I think it’s even more distressing that the plan would have caused us to fulfill a racist joke—the one that goes, when does a white guy serve as a chauffer for a black and a latino? When he’s a cop and they’re in the back seat.

You’ll be happy to know that we chose the couches—or rather, passed out before we could make a conscious choice.

New Rules for a New Year

so we're late with keepin up on our posts, did you expect anything less from the team?

well, latowna is bizack, bringin a little color to your 2L year. here's my 10 new rules for the new year:

1. people who ask questions after class has already ended should be shot.
2. republican minorities who are against affirmative action are not allowed to apply for diversity fellowships.
3. anyone who speaks with or enjoys british accents in class is no longer allowed to complain that mexican immigrants who participate in anti-immigration protests and rallies need to become more american if they want to be citizens.
4. if your advice to kids in the street law program is “just don’t break the law, it can’t be that hard to stay out of trouble,” don’t do the street law program.
5. don’t hate on students of color or women who are part of organizations promoting their ethnicity/gender and/or who receive special handling by firms because of it. you are part of an organization that supports your ethnicity/gender too—it’s called america. and you always receive special handling there.
6. when you’re talking about jim crow or immigration, don’t look out of the corner of your eyes at the black or latino student in the classroom. it’s not like we can’t tell fools are waiting for a token angry minority response. plus, ya’ll know we don’t vote, so why would we contribute to classroom discussion?
7. the student of color in your class that happens to be from an “inner-city” near your school does not necessarily know where to get weed. but, in all honesty, probably he does. and it’s probably from some crazy white boy he knows from college or high school.
8. conservatives, please recognize we don’t hate your for your viewpoints or the fact that you express them, we hate you for the smug, self-entitled, ignorant ass way you go about it.
9. don’t have a full-volume cell phone conversation in the library, even if the call is for a job opportunity. it’s not about following rules, it’s about home training. and if you need to ask what home training means, you don’t have any.
10. to firm recruiters: if you brag to me about your firm’s diversity, and i don’t meet a single person of color on my callback interview, you’re no longer allowed to brag about your firm’s diversity.