New historic footage of a young Barack Obama speaking at a 1991 Harvard Law School rally

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The video speaks for itself.

There are some people in this world who are "special." There are some people in the world are "gifted." And sometimes you can identify them even at a young age.



Here is some info behind the protest and video.

Andrew Kaczynski of Buzzfeed discovered this little gem of a video, in which then-law student Barack Obama spoke at a protest in favor of Harvard Law Professor Derrick Bell.
Kaczynski explains what the protest was all about.

Bell was the first black tenured professor at the school, and a pioneer of "critical race theory," which insisted, controversially, on reading issues of race and power into legal scholarship. His protest that spring was occasioned by Harvard's denial of tenure to a black woman professor, Regina Austin, at a time when only three of the law school's professors were black and only five women. He told Harvard he would take a leave of absence — a kind of academic strike — "until a woman of color is offered and accepted a tenured position on this faculty," and he launched a hunger strike to dramatize his point.
Obama was a major figure on campus, the first black president of the Law Review. Some friends, in a prescient joke, just referred to him as "the first black president." He had a reputation as a conciliatory figure, not a confrontational one like Bell.

Probably the most amazing thing about it is the fact that Obama's speech-giving style is so little changed since his days at Harvard. Obama has the same soaring cadence, dramatic pauses, and light-hearted jokes that you find in almost every one of his speeches.


http://www.businessinsider.com/this-1991-video-of-a-harvard-protest-shows-barack-obama-has-always-given-great-speeches-2012-3




I'm sorry but this video reminds me of this commercial

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1. Is there no evil

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to which this man will not sink too? Damn that Obama....

Is this the supposed great new secret video that Brietbart was yammering about before he seized up?

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4. I dont know. But the way conservatives think... probably so! nt

[Johonny]

5. no doubt

They'll edit the crap out of it to scare the crap out of their audience.

[banned from Kos]

6. maybe playing this video on Hannity tonight will cause a chain of coronary events

across Fox News Nation.

they should provide a warning to their infirm.

[CAPHAVOC]

7. So what is supposed to be wrong with it?

Sorry I don't see anything radical. I do sometimes wonder if he worked for the CIA when he was young.

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8. I haven't got a clue

but if Obama said it I'm sure some RW nutjob is going to find fault in it.

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9. I thought the video was great. I didn't even know there was anything controversial about it

until I got to this website and read some of the other threads.

The video was praised on MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports.





I think its time all of us stopped freaking out everytime Hannity says boo!


BTW... has anyone seen the whitey tape?

[Kber]

12. you're not thinking with your tin foil cap

Obviously after the black ops triggered Breitbart's heart attack, they stole the "real" video and replaced it with something completely innocent.

The "real" videao, promised by Breitbart, would have been truly damaging!!1!

or something.

[CAPHAVOC]

13. I like it

A new conspiracy theory. Too bad just looks like a normal college day to me. You shoulda been there in the 60's.

[dubient]

11. Yes

Breitbart's website is claiming the video is "selectively edited." Project much?

[slackmaster]

2. That guy sounds and acts just like the real Obama

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3. I'm sorry but that video reminds me of this.

[Kingofalldems]

10. Hahahahaha---Freepers.

This is what Breitbart promised?

Yikes.