he is now 155 delegates away from clinching the nomination.

Which means he needs less than fifty more superdelegates, of the 250 or so that remain undeclared.

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a shorter version of my critique of affirmative action:

AA bar pass rates at HBCs like Howard hover around 50%, and even at elite law skools are no higher than 60%. But at fourth tier law skools with insignificant AA enrollment, the bar pass rates are in the 80-85% range.

Something is surely wrong here.

Yes, compared to the 0% bar pass rate for monkeys, 50% doesn't seem so bad, but surely that is not the proper standard.

and surely law skools and law firms are mistaken to privilege race over competence. Certainly, the obligation of the profession is to provide the best possible legal counsel, not to provide legal counsel based on ethnicity.

Yilla's comment is complete screed and absurd.

First, Yilla's facts are incorrect--bar passage rates are not higher at fourth tier law schools than they are at accredited law schools with higher black enrollment.

Second, bar exams are state specific--to the extent that a school has a higher bar passage rate than another is irrelevant, unless the schools are located in the same state. A better metric would look at bar passage rates of a school compared to state average.

Third, Yilla has no factual basis to claim that there is insignificant enrollment of blacks at "fourth tier" schools.

Fourth, unaccredited law schools--fourth tier as defined by Yilla--often teach to bar exams, as opposed to teaching the law. Their goal is to become accredited, and the only way to do that is by maintaining a consistently high bar passage rate.

Yilla's comment doesn't necessarily deserve so much attention. At bottom, it is racist, which by definition means that it is ignorant. It's unfortunate if Yilla has been duped into believing this sort of information as part of the foundation for Yilla's racism.

Yilla:

Since law schools do not publish bar passage rates by race, I assume you went and spoke with all of the African American students in your law school to determine their bar passage rates. Otherwise, your conclusion is personal, not statistically significant, and likely designed to feed to your obvious bias.

Second, your estimation of bar passage rates is incorrect. They are published on the web, and while Howard's is lower than the average Ivy League, it also is pegged to New York, which is--by all measures--the most difficult of bar exams.

Third, bar passage is also a reflection of your ability to pay for bar passage courses. I went to a highly-ranked law school as well, and I can tell you that the only reason I passed the bar was because I plunked down the several thousand dollars needed to take BAR/BRI, not because my law school in any way prepared me to take the bar exam.

Fourth, since you purport to be an attorney, I would have thought quite clearly that you would not have believed that the bar exam measures--or is even a close proxy to--the quality of the attorney.

Finally, and most fundamentally, this is a post about Barack Obama winning a superdelegate in California. I hate to say it Yilla, but posting specious comments about the quality of Black Law Schools in this thread is the definition of racist. What are you trying to say? That Barack Obama or the people who vote for him are somehow less qualified because of your cherry-picked statistic about the quality of Black Law Schools?

So, Yilla, the anonymous blogger with access to incredible amounts of information--and who cake-walked through the New York Bar after attending an Ivy League Law School--about the bar passage rates of people of all races, has concluded from his survey that....

Why not just say it Yilla: you think black people are intellectually inferior to white people, based upon your personal experience and survey of bar results. And don't just say it on the blogs, anonymously. Be proud of yourself. You've proven it. Publish a paper.

Unbelievable. Your logic proves one thing to me, Yilla--I'd never want you representing me.

Yilla-
Hillary Clinton has a Yale law education, and she failed the DC bar.

Should we be extrapolating something about white women, too?