Amy Goodman
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NAACP Slams Fox News Attack on Obama For Praising Pioneering Black Professor Derrick Bell
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7:37Now Playingdemocracynow.org - The NAACP's Benjamin Jealous responds to recent attacks on the late Derrick Bell, the first tenured African-American professor at Harvard Law School. Fox News host Sean Hannity played a video showing then-student Barack Obama hugging Bell during a protest over Harvard's failure to hire minority faculty. Former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Hannity's program called Bell a "radical college racist professor." "I think, quite frankly, Sean Hannity was afraid to talk to Derrick Bell directly. Because this [video] has been out there for years," Jealous says. "If he had, he would have encountered somebody of tremendous compassion, of tremendous intelligence and of tremendous patriotism."
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