BREAKING: Radical Cronyism? Sit-In Leader Nominated as Judge by Pres. Obama
(Also read: More Obama Tapes: Michelle Obama a Race Agitating Occupier?)
The leader of the occupation in the video — Robert L. Wilkins of the Harvard Black Law Students Association — was nominated by President Obama on May 20, 2010 to be considered for judge of the U.S. District Court, District of Columbia. He is now a sitting judge in that position.
From the White House press release:
President Obama Names Three to United States District Court
WASHINGTON- Today, President Obama nominated Judge Anthony Joseph Battaglia, Judge Edward J. Davila and Robert L. Wilkins to seats on the United States District Court.
“These distinguished individuals have demonstrated an unwavering commitment to justice throughout their careers,” said President Obama. “I am grateful for their decision to serve the American people from the District Court bench.”
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Robert L. Wilkins: Nominee for United States District Court, District of Columbia
Robert L. Wilkins is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Venable LLP, where he practices primarily in corporate defense/white collar, technology, and commercial litigation. Previously, Mr. Wilkins was an attorney with the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, where he was chief of special litigation from 1996 to 2000, and where he has served as a trustee from 2002 to 2007 and as vice chair from 2007 to 2008. The Legal Times has named Mr. Wilkins one of the 90 Greatest Washington Lawyers of the Last 30 Years. He was a founding member of the D.C. Access to Justice Commission and he has served on the D.C. Advisory Commission on Sentencing, the D.C. Truth-In-Sentencing Commission, and the D.C. Juvenile Justice Advisory Group. As president of the National African American Museum & Cultural Complex, he helped to plan and create the National Museum of African American History and Culture within the Smithsonian Institution. Following law school, Mr. Wilkins clerked for Judge Earl B. Gilliam of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California. Mr. Wilkins is a native of Muncie, Indiana. He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1989 and his B.S. from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 1986.
Not mentioned in the press release: that Wilkins once led an illegal occupation of a law school building to demand the school hire based on skin color, a protest primarily focused on supporting the actions of radical bigot Derrick Bell.





Not mentioned in this blog post: why Republican Senators did not block Wilkins’ appointment.
It’s a non-story. President Obama pals around with black people! Oh my! Defrost a twenty year old non-event and call it an exclusive, surround it with breathless hype, sprinkle it with bimbos and false eyelashes, season it with conspiracy overtones and serve it up hot to a bunch of morons who will spend months regurgitating it and examining it for auspices. This is Breitbart’s final gift to his clan, so I won’t begrudge it. Besides, his gift to us last week was far more generous.
Try to pay attention here. I know it’s hard for you, like most liberals, to look past skin color, but we grownups here are talking about how the press left this bit out:
“Wilkins once led an illegal occupation of a law school building to demand the school hire based on skin color, a protest primarily focused on supporting the actions of radical bigot Derrick Bell”
Now why did they leave that out?
Could it be that they didn’t want anyone to hear that piece of news and decide to dislike this upstanding citizen?
Nothing has been left out. When I saw that video making the rounds yesterday, I didn’t watch it. Do you know why? I’d already SEEN it. It was part of a PBS Frontline documentary that came out in 2008. It’s available for instant streaming on Netflix. A dud of a bombshell indeed. And here’s the money quote from PBS: “It’s been online at our site and on YouTube since [2008].”
All that video proves to me is Obama was a good public speaker even 21 years ago, while he was still a student. With no teleprompter. Try paying attention, and just not to the carefully edited stuff (but not especially skillful) that supports what you already want to believe. I stand by my original comment.
You are on the wrong thread or something, because your comments have nothing to do with the preceding article.
The article is not about any video.
It is about one of Obama’s selections and how his press release omits the fact that the guy was part of an illegal demonstration — a fact that he press will likewise omit, even if they discover it.
CW it is not a dud of a bombshell but a reminder of what was feared and poo-pooed and what has actually come to pass. Obama has actually appointed people to positions by race and used politics as a bludgeon to advance the cause of blacks over others during his Presidency; this is undeniable.
To me the great irony in this story from the defense on the political Left and their ignoring the harm of racist moronic entities like Critical Race Theory is this: if you live based on race you will die based on race.
Sure black folks can use informal and legal institutional political correctness to find careers in niche industries like Hollywood or TV or some arts and in affirmative action hires but the vast majority of the American landscape doesn’t operate like that and this is the source of the continued failure of black America and its segregation a half century on from the Civil Rights era; it is because reality has its own imperatives and one can’t fix a car by being black or by blaming others – extend that idea out as far as you wish. Using racial tactics, black Americans are ensconced in areas where it does the least good in the long run. Despite all the hoo haw over the Tuskeegee Airmen, blacks comprise 1% of jet pilots – that’s because jets and mathematics don’t care what color you are and there are limits to the benefits of blame and weird racial theories like ‘white privilege.’
In short, you couldn’t do more harm to the black community by following the ideas of men like Obama, Holder, Ogletree and Bell if you tried. There are short term advantages to the political Left admiring instead of shunning Orwell’s “doublethink” but in the long run such things are like an asteroid strike, wiping out all intellectual life. The KKK would be frickin’ laughing its ass off at the policies of the Dem Party if the KKK had the brains themselves to understand what it is that’s going on.
I saw this video in 2008 peed
When I viewed this video prior to Obama being elected, I saw something different than you and many OTHER Deaf, Dumb and Blind Americans that voted for HIM.
I too, was overwhelmed by the POSTER BOY OBAMA. lmend
You know, I just want to be blunt, and let the chips fall where they may. Sometime around 1774 or so, it had to become more and more obvious to the colonists that were moderates that the British just did not ever intend to give in–that the colonists would in fact be subject to what we today call “crony capitalism”, where someone who could get Parliament’s ear would get some benefit (such as the tea monopoly that caused the 1773 Tea Parties), and that there would be no real security for the colonists interests, since they did not have votes in Parliament. And so the war came. With the repeated refusal of the British to listen hard enough, then independence came.
Naturally, the loss of the America colonies surely helped Britain more peacefully resolve the issue of self-governance for Canada and Australia when those times came. But it did nothing to prevent the loss of America, because Parliament was too stupid to realize the colonists were quite serious, and were not Scots nor Irishmen who would fold upon one quick blow being delivered.
Fast forward to today. At some point, moderate liberals of the “classic liberal” sort have got to wake up and smell the coffee. The Obama wing of the Democratic party is becoming the only wing, and if that is not the direction those of a more moderate bent wish to go, if they actually are somewhat appreciative of historic America and the Anglo-American rule of law society, then they need to do some soul-searching. The sooner they do it, the easier and with less fuss will the threat to liberty be resolved. And let me assure you, it *will* be resolved, and in what I consider a favorable direction.
The only thing to determine is the societal hate and discontent that are going to be paid as a price for that resolution. It *can* be kept low. But it in part depends on those most willing to demand others to “challenge their beliefs” to do the same.
The people in the favorable direction have all the guns in american society (for a reason!).
Classical liberal thought is moderate. Consequently, we are not march down the blvd with torches kind of people but…If the Tea Party and Beck rallies did not open the eyes of the “crony’s”, I do not think anything will. We gave up the narrative along time ago, probably when the media consolodated and chose sides.
If we have a repeat election of 2010 some eyes will surely open, I only hope it is enough of a mandate to shove some change it back legislation down the throats of the leftist-marxist trash occupying the congress.
“I only hope it is enough of a mandate to shove some change it back legislation down the throats of the leftist-marxist trash occupying the congress.”
Sadly, it’s going to get worse before it gets better. The leftwingers will be the ones bringing violence (as usual) and causing the ruckus when the government staves off spending money on crappy programs that build crap.
For half a century or more, they have gotten the EPA, the DOE, the whole friggin’ alphabet of agencies and federal money vacuums. Yet not one single person in the media has noticed that life is not better in any way because of any of those said entities. Education continues to tank and the US has flushed billions of dollars down that sewer. We are more dependent now on foreign oil than ever and the DOE…created for the SOLE purpose of getting us away from foreign oil reliance with a very meager budget cost us $28.4 BILLION last year.
But when adults start reigning in spending, the spoiled welfare children and the useless agency hacks will cry bloody murder. Then the riots and the burning of cars and so on. When you cut off an addict, that’s when all hell breaks loose. Not all addicts recover..in fact most don’t. Those that do have to watch themselves very closely to avoid going back to the way they were.
The government has been guilty of enabling an entire population of generational crack-whores. All in the name of “the right thing to do”. Gone are those who understand discipline and having to be cruel to be kind.
But the mandate you seek is not going to happen any time soon. We have a whole generation or two of hippies that have to die off before that can even begin. Just as they find the Greatest Generation’s way of thinking passe and so “square” so will the generations that follow the hippies. I’m 10-15 years behind them and I almost can’t wait for them to be gone so I can witness the rebirth of rugged individualism, liberty and pride in a strong nation.
I’m not saying we’ve gotten our money’s worth, but since the creation of the EPA our air and water _has_ become cleaner.
You’ve got that almost back to front. The Scots and Irish were never like that, though the English were, which is why the history of the previous century showed so much trouble in dealing with Jacobite and other rebellions in Scotland and Ireland but very little in England. If anything, the government was treating the colonials as English by using a light touch during military operations and avoiding the sorts of military tactics it was willing to employ in Scootland and Ireland. If anything, the error caused by distance and time was in thinking that there was more local support and Englishness than there was by then, even though there was still actually quite a bit (that doesn’t show in revisionist histories because the rebels repressed them so thoroughly once they got the chance); they didn’t want to antagonise that element. Meanwhile, many of the colonials made the opposite error from the same cause, of thinking that George III was the tyrant James II come again, which he wasn’t.
More of the same from our little Marxist in the house.
And I’m sure Robert L. Wilkins is also a really, really, good friend of Eric Holder’s. If Holder is ever brought to court of “Fast and Furious” (sure, like that’s ever going to happen), I’m sure he’s going to want Wilkins as his judge. Makes me sick how all these people know each other just to get a job.
Wilkins did not help much to “plan and create” the new African American museum. He was initially AGAINST the museum on the Mall! Three others, two Republicans and one Democrat (only one a politician) were responsible for there being a museum effort at all—eleven years ago!
Every appointment or job has to be given to a criminal or radical activist. Obummer cannot possibly take a chance that a human being with a conscience and morals would not break the code, the code of total evil that defines this regime. The republicans on the other hand, when caught accidentally dropping a gum wrapper on the sidewalk and not picking it up, will resign from office, live in shame, be divorced and banished from their family. This is not a case of double standards, no… the BO regime has no standards, none, there is no bottom.
Is being a judge of the U.S. District Court, District of Columbia, a way-station on the path to becoming a justice of the United States Supreme Court?
District of Columbia Act of 1871 Defacto formed 1
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CORPORATE FASCISM: The Destruction of America’s Middle Class
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTbvoiTJKIs&feature=related
if this was a basketball or football team being loaded with the owner’s unqualified friends and incompetence like this, the other players would be saying he was trying to destroy the game.
or, maybe covering bases for holder for later ? ???
or, he may just be stacking the deck for a future s.c. appointment if somebody doesn’t show up for work someday after waking up with a horse’s head in their bed. these guys are from chicago ya know. just sayin’.
CA Congressional Office: ““The environment is much more important than jobs”.Congresswoman Karen Bass seems more interested in re-electing Obama and promoting “Critical Race Theory” that either job creation or environmental protection. Details, with video and graphic, at link.