I’m still not over the fact that only one black bar applicant who was a first time bar taker and a graduate of an ABA accredited school passed the CA bar exam in February 2020 🥺

It costs on average $15k to study for the bar exam and pay expenses. Because of the racial wealth gap most Black bar applicants have to work while studying in order to pay their fees and living costs. This dramatically decreases their chances of passing the exam.
Here are a few sources:

https://t.co/UqVeUG1hzD
https://t.co/EXDaCreVrO
https://t.co/LMUFMEWuI8
More resources are on the last two posts of this thread: https://t.co/KcUBDhhrxk
In 2020, a collective of law grads along with professors, deans, and attorneys started a movement to abolish the bar exam bc we see it as a major barrier of entry & unnecessary duplicative. It makes entering the legal profession costs prohibitive. https://t.co/S9thxUYXq5
In 2021, I started a Community Fund for Black Bar Applicants to tackle prohibitive costs of the bar exam and raise the number of Black bar applicants that can have a fighting chance of passing:

https://t.co/hYeIFHxTAt
Before the bar exam was widely adopted by states in the early 1900 there was diploma privilege and apprenticeship. Most lawyers did not have to take the bar exam until more states adopted it in the 1970s (coincidentally the height of affirmative action).
In the early 1910s the ABA noticed that 3 Black people had been unintentionally admitted to the Bar, so convened a meeting to discuss how they can make the profession more “pure”. During that meeting they decided to adopt the bar exam and promote it to all states.
By the 1930 southern states were adopting the bar exam by legislative action and proclaiming that it would prevent “negros and undesirable whites” from becoming attorneys. By the 1970s 5% of the profession was Black and 4% of the profession were women.
Now in 2021, 5% of the legal profession is Black, only 2% are black women.

And I don’t have an ending to this thread because this isn’t over until we get more Black representation in the legal field and abolish the bar exam. /TBC

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David Baddiel is getting lots of coverage and feedback on his book which again focuses on so called 'left wing' antisemitism.

I will start by saying that I have seen antisemitic comments made by Labour members and some genuine cases.

However, I have huge concerns.


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Let's look in detail at this article written in April 2019 in the @Guardian - and I will explain the concerns.

The areas highlighted guide you to believe this was all Labour - IT WASN'T.

It also occurred before 2015! Detail follows...

https://t.co/cK59FP83aG


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So as you see the writer of this rather deceitful piece starts with

"THAT CHANGED IN SEPTEMBER 2015" 🙄

This was done to point the timeframe as Corbyn's leadership. Yet the article goes on to describe things that are not even related to Labour, which occurred in 2014.


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So... What in fact the @Guardian writer is discussing here is this case - where a group of Neo-Nazi's spent months inflicting abuse on Jewish MP Luciana Berger

All the detail is in the Court Notes when Bonehill-Paine was sentenced by the judge.

https://t.co/wAyo6Yro5Q


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The Justice sentencing remarks to Neo-Nazi explain the previous cases too. See the date 2014.

Yet the Guardian writer refers to this NON LABOUR case to effectively make her article a lie.

"Star of David" - this was Garron Helm another neo-Nazi..

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Whichever gives highest profit he trades in.


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Sell when Vega is falling rather than for theta decay. You won't be trapped and higher probability of making profit.