I haven’t been a member of the American Bar Association since my one-year free membership expired on the first anniversary of my law school graduation. I decided not to join because during that year, because of a column written by the President of the ABA, a distinguished elder member of the bar, a white man about 60 years old or so. Writing in 1993, he stated in one of his “President’s Corner” messages in the ABA Journal that “racial relations today are the worst they’ve been in my lifetime.”
His lifetime, which began sometime in the 1930s. Worse in 1993 than when legal segregation was widespread. Worse in 1993 than before Brown v. Board of Education. Worse in 1993 than in the days of Bull Connor. Worse in 1993 than before the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
I decided then and there that I would never be a member of an organization capable of electing such a complete moron to its highest office.
