Harvard protester on Obama video: Why would anyone want to hide this?

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Daily Voice editor Keith Boykin, who attended Harvard University with President Barack Obama, expressed confusion on Wednesday over the controversy surrounding video of Obama introducing Dr. Derrick Bell in 1990.

Breitbart.com published video of Obama speaking about Bell, a racial justice pioneer who developed the critical race theory. Breitbart.com has labeled the professor a “racialist” and compared him to controversial Pastor Jeremiah Wright.

“The whole idea that somehow Barack Obama or others want to hide this, why would anyone want to hide this speech?” Bokyin wondered during an appearance on MSNBC. “We had sit-ins and demonstrations. He didn’t do all that. But he came and stuck his neck out at a time of critical importance when Professor Bell was about to leave.”

At the time, Obama was serving as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review.

“If you look at that rally, most of the people there were white,” Bokyin noted. “They were not black. It is a reflection of how popular Derrick Bell was as a professor at the law school, among blacks, whites, Latinos, Asians, everyone.”

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