Gawker: Meet Stephanie Grace, the Harvard Law Student Who Started a Racist Email War

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"Third-year Harvard Law student Stephanie Grace sent a mass email about the inherent stupidity of black people. Now her campus, legal blogs, and the Black Law Students Association are up in arms, and Stephanie is hiding.

In the spring of her third and final year at Harvard Law, Stephanie Grace knows she shot herself in the foot. First she went on a white supremacist rant during a dinner with a group of law students. Then, when she got home, she emailed her dinner companions eugenics-lite email screed about "the possibility that African Americans are, on average, genetically predisposed to be less intelligent." What's dumber, thinking this audience wouldn't take offense, or thinking they wouldn't be cutthroat enough to take her down? Someone forwarded the email to Harvard's Black Law Students Association, which in turn forwarded it to Black Law Students Associations nationwide. Then legal blog Above the Law printed the email with her name redacted. As comment moderators fought to keep her name off their site, Stephanie apparently navigated to Facebook and began scrubbing herself from the internet, presumably to minimize how closely the imbroglio would be tied to her name, face, and reputation.

She ignored our requests for comment, giggling, "That's not me," when she hung up on us on the phone. (It was her. The outgoing voice message said so.)

Stephanie graduated from Princeton in 2007 with a degree in—wait for it—sociology. She's on the Harvard Law Review and, after graduation, she'll head to California for a plum federal clerkship with Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski, the titillating defender of free speech who had to recuse himself from a obscenity case when his cache of cow porn pictures came to light."

http://gawker.com/5527355/meet-stephanie-grace-the-harvard-law-student-who-started-a-racist-email-war

issues because we didn't go to Harvard.

I say, HAH!

Racists flocked to buy that book in search of a quasi-intellectual defense for their nonsense.

Harvard each year, and they let her in? There is no justice.

when you give a stupid person an education.

and in the larger scheme of things, it's more stupid than icky, but still NSFW.

This is just an example of an intelligent person who firmly believes stupid things and won't allow facts to get into the way of such a belief. We skeptics run into them all the time and it's infuriating. One will always seemingly change an opinion if new facts come to light, but nothing seems to change a belief and the more irrational that belief, the more strongly the believer will cling to it.

I'm sure she'll find her niche as a bible toting clerk to some arch conservative, just waiting her chance to screw up a Federal court when the next idiot is elected to the White House.

"intelligent person who firmly believes stupid things and won't allow facts to get into the way of such a belief"

e.g. http://www.rpi.edu/~sofkam/papers/skeptik.html


Holding certain ideas dear in the face of evidence to the contrary isn't unique to one group of people; regardless of the "correctness" of their world view.



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Do I want to know? Probably not.

She's proof that smart, well-educated people are still quite capable of believing some really dumb shit.

She must have a post-clerkship offer from a law firm. For now.

...the "cow porn" in question was more silly than icky - nude women with cow-patterned body paint.

Thanks for the heads up. I thought it might be somebody who got aroused by those California cow commercials.


:think:

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.... a lot more than they putatively measure in the first place.

You know the story: The wave of Irish immigrants who arrived in coffin ships weren't just starving and sick, they were, thanks to centuries of oppression, often illiterate as well. They were so culturally different from the norm in America that "some said" they were subhuman and were incapable of assimilation, quite aside from being Papists.

As for IQ tests, I grew up in the Sputnik/Space Race generation and we got to know standardized tests awfully well. Before I was quite fully grown though, there was a growing body of evidence that those tests were culturally and economically biased. Children whose families didn't possess a full set of dishes due to poverty might get to school not knowing that a picture of a coffee cup should be paired with a picture of a saucer. Now we know even more is missing from those tests: emotional IQ, social IQ, musical IQ, and probably more that hasn't been perceived yet.

I know I've inherited a lot from my parents (sadly, not money or social position, LOL) including a dominant gene for dreadful eyesight that came from my father's mother to him and to us. There's a strain of ADD that crops up in the branches of the family tree, too. But if my mother and father hadn't been avid readers, I might not be a reader. We're all 4 of us bright (as evidenced by the same culturally biased IQ tests that shut others out) -- but how much of how we "scored" is due to a mother who pushed us, the fact that the nation saw fit to spend tax money on public schools while we were in them, and a host of elements that have nothing to do with our DNA?

My current favorite book on the subject is Malcom Gladwell's "Outliers." It is a terrific read, highly recommended.

One thing I am sure of: it's not a "black" or "white" thing in America, where all African-Americans not directly from Africa share "white" DNA in abundance.

Hekate

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Hekate

Do I really care. Not really. And thanks for the edumacation about cow porn. I had no idea. I'm married so I don't know much about these sexual kinds of things. ;-)

Want to broadcast how ignorant you are in the process?..amazing how some people are their own worst enemy.

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are among them, as are their husbands and children.

:shrug:

So there goes Stephanie's theory right down the drain.

so that others wouldn't misinterpret. :hi:

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self-delete

http://abovethelaw.com/2010/04/the-harvard-law-school-racist-email-controversy-dean-minow-weighs-in/

This sad and unfortunate incident prompts both reflection and reassertion of important community principles and ideals. We seek to encourage freedom of expression, but freedom of speech should be accompanied by responsibility. This is a community dedicated to intellectual pursuit and social justice. The circulation of one student’s comment does not reflect the views of the school or the overwhelming majority of the members of this community.

:P

Glad to clear that one up for ya.

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she needs a camera that auto-removes the red eye... or she should invest in some post-production image editing software, like photoshop....

or maybe she IS a devil baby, who knows anymore.

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Pot, meet kettle. What a hateful dummy.

I raise them or give them to an orphanage in Nigeria. "

I look forward to that. Let's do all we can to spread the word about this piece of shit.

to success in this country.

Her evil is right out of the gospel of Lee Atwater.

Let's hope that her racist meltdown will alert someone of conscience to not let her into the corridors of power.

We've enough problems with racist politicians already in powerful positions in this country. Let Sarah Palin provide a much needed example why we cannot let a person such as Grace into a leadership position.

How Not To Bury an Embarrassing Story

Meet attorney Monica Zent. Back in college, she dated a guy who turned out to be a pretty bad fellow. In fact, he murdered his parents and a sibling so he could take over the family fortune. The boyfriend, Dana Ewell, and his college buddy, Joel Radovcich, were accused of murdering Ewell's mother, State Bar Board of Governors member Glee Ewell, her husband Dale, and their daughter Tiffany, on Easter Sunday in 1992. Zent was investigated, but no one could prove any involvement on her part, other than her apparent lack of desire to cooperate in the investigation that led to her boyfriend's murder convictions, and the fact that he used some of the money to pay for part of her law school tuition.

Eventually, Ewell was convicted, and Zent went on to dump him, complete law school and build a successful law practice (and legal blog). For the most part, people forgot all about Monica Zent's connection to the story. Then, in 2004, some fellow named David Loya found about about the story, Zent, and her new successful life, and decided to send an email to her colleagues. On July, 2, 2004, Loya sent an e-mail to attorneys affiliated with the Zent Law Group. The subject line of the e-mail was “Monica Zent and murder for profit.” The entire text of the message read as follows:

“Monica Zent’s college boyfriend Dana Ewell was convicted of murdering his parents and sister. Read about it by typing in an internet keyword search using Zent’s and Dana Ewell’s name.”\


more:

http://lexicon.typepad.com/lexicon/2007/03/how_not_to_bury.html

accepted Geo. W Bush. What more do we need to know about Harvard. It is all about the Harvard Fund.

:yikes:

There are no skulls of the homo sapiens species found before 200,000 years ago. We find skulls of the homo genus prior to this, but 200,000 years ago is the furthest back homo sapiens (human) skulls are found. That is not to say definitively homo sapiens was around 200,000 years ago, as it is disputed if the Omo and Dali skulls are 200,000 years old, or whether they are in fact homo sapiens, but we go back no further than 200,000 years.

Looking at the Y-chromosome of many men, it is estimated the furthest back the common male ancestor of all people is 90,000 years ago (the common female ancestor of all is further back). 90,000 is the largest number, some think it is tens of thousands of years less.

Aside from skull shape, evidence of humans acting in a non-animal fashion - fishing nets, cave drawings, Venus figurines, goes back only 50,000 years.

Our genetic code is simply a recipe for proteins. For whites to be genetically smarter than blacks, that would pre-suppose that some time in the past 90,000 years from that father "Adam" of all people (some thinking him being less than 90,000 years back), there would have had to have been a mutation that made whites smarter.

I should point out of course that if one goes back in time one thousand years, Europe was in pretty sad shape, while civilizations in the Americas, Asia and Africa were flourishing. In 1054, the Eastern Christian church broke off from the Western Christian church - and in terms of civilization, the Eastern, mostly non-European church was at that time much superior, which is one of the reasons for the schism.

You also wonder what the scientific test would be that shows a white can do something that a black can not do. If you had a test which showed blacks were incapable of integrating a differential equation or something, I might start listening, but these people tend to talk more about the liberal conspiracy to keep the truth from coming out about this, how global warming is a hoax and the like.

she could be Backwards B Girl's sister? I see a resemblance...

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Sociology? She apparantly didn't learn anything orrrrrrrrrr was she incapable of learning anything?:shrug:

Are there any sane people left to govern and protect this country??

There are larger I Q differences within groups than between groups. In other words there are some real not so bright whites and some real not so bright blacks and vice versa.

But what's the possibility of some Right winger at Harvard, or with connections to Harvard, trying to "counterpoint" Obama and his Law Review past pushing for the inclusion of an open racist?

In any case, it still makes me mad as hell that there will be no actual consequence that will make her pause her "giggling" over her racist crap.

Sure, she's stupid and her ideas are asinine. So what? She's not being employed by the university or anything. The country's full of assholes like this. Why is this a big deal?