Abstract

Diary of a Mad Law Professor

The author says that after more than a year’s worth of labor, U.S. President’s advisory panel on race has come back with what by all accounts is a series of “modest” recommendations aimed at promoting “harmony,” “dialogue” and “reconciliation." Meanwhile the New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani courts peace by insuring that all the trains and rallies run on time, threatens the arrest of organizers of the Million Youth March for inciting riot-control police to riot, and, over the opposition of most parents and the schools chancellor, formally assigns the oversight of discipline in the public schools. If these events were not contorted enough, sorting out the lesson to be learned is thornier still. People shiver at the crudities of the parade in Broad Channel.