Harvard 3L's Email Questioning Intelligence of Blacks Sparks Racial Furor

Boston Globe, E-mail on Race Sparks a Furor at Harvard Law; Student Regrets Questioning the Intelligence of Blacks:

It was a private dinner conversation among three friends. The topic: affirmative action and race. The debate presumably was passionate, given the divergent opinions of the Harvard Law School students.

Stephanie Grace, a third-year law student, felt she had not made her position clear, so she followed up via e-mail, according to a person with direct knowledge of events.

“I just hate leaving things where I feel I misstated my position,’’ Grace wrote. “I absolutely do not rule out the possibility that African-Americans are, on average, genetically predisposed to be less intelligent.’’

The lengthy e-mail, sent to her two dinner companions six months ago, ignited an Internet firestorm this week when it was leaked and first reported Wednesday by the legal blog abovethelaw.com, followed by other websites.

Yesterday, Martha Minow, dean of Harvard Law School, condemned the e-mail that suggested blacks are genetically less intelligent than whites. “Here at Harvard Law School, we are committed to preventing degradation of any individual or group, including race-based insensitivity or hostility,’’ Minow wrote in a message to Harvard’s law school community.

• Above the Law, Harvard Law School 3L’s Racist Email Goes National
• Above the Law,  The Harvard Law School ‘Racist’ Email Controversy: Corrections and More Commentary
• Above the Law,  The Harvard Law School ‘Racist’ Email Controversy: Dean Martha Minow Weighs In
• Above the Law,  CRIMSON DNA Apologizes, But Gawker Outs Her
• Above the Law, Harvard Law School BLSA and the Banality of Evil
• ABA Journal, Harvard Law Student’s Racist E-Mail Goes Viral; Dean Calls It ‘Sad & Unfortunate’
• Althouse, Harvard 3L Stephanie Grace Writes "I Absolutely Do Not Rule Out the Possibility that African-Americans Are, on Average, Genetically Predisposed to be Less Intelligent" -- and Is Publicly Reamed 
• Althouse, Neo Neo-con Flunks Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow
• Daily Princetonian, Alumna Sends Controversial E-mail to Friends at Harvard Law School
• Feminste, The Racist Breeding Grounds of Harvard Law School
• Gawker, Did a Law Student 'Cat Fight' Lead to Harvard's Racist Email Scandal?
• Gawker, Meet Stephanie Grace, the Harvard Law Student Who Started a Racist Email War
• Harvard Crimson, HLS Responds to Racist E-Mail
• Huffington Post, For Whom the Bell Curves: Harvard Law Student Says Blacks Are Dumber Than Whites; Black Harvard Professor Agrees
• Leiter's Law School Reports, The Racist E-Mail by the Harvard 3L
• Volokh Conspiracy (David Berstein), Taboo and Not Taboo at Elite Universities
• Volokh Conspiracy (Orin Kerr), Judging a Person Based on a Single Forwarded Personal E-Mail
• Volokh Conspiracy (Orin Kerr), Approaching Arguments That Have a Racist Past
• Volokh Conspiracy (Eugene Volokh), 1. Science, Faith, and Not Ruling Out Possibilities
• Volokh Conspiracy (Eugene Volokh), 2. The Response by the Dean of Harvard Law School to the Student’s E-Mail
• Volokh Conspiracy (Eugene Volokh), 3. The Practical Costs of Condemning Openness to Distressing Answers on Factual Questions
• Volokh Conspiracy (Eugene Volokh), 4. On a Bus in Kiev
• Volokh Conspiracy (Eugene Volokh), A View from an Incoming Harvard 1L
• Wonkette, Harvard’s Greatest Law School Student To Work For Cow Porn Judge

Update:

• Above the Law (David Lat), The Harvard Email Controversy: How It All Began
• Althouse, Now I Hasten to Say That the Controversy at Harvard Is Only a Pale Echo of Soviet Communism
• The Atlantic (Andrew Sullivan), Race and Intelligence Again
• Gawker, Racist Harvard Law Email: The Cat Fight That Turned Into a National Scandal
• Harvard Crimson, Gawking at the Ivory Tower
• The Right Coast (Mike Rappaport), The Harvard E Mail Affair:Abusing the System
• The Right Coast (Tom Smith), Harvard Law School Race Flap
• The Right Coast (Tom Smith), I Do Not Rule Out the Possibility that Dean Minnow Screwed the Pooch on This One
• Volokh Conspiracy (David Berstein), I Shouldn’t Take Brian Leiter’s Bait, So
• Volokh Conspiracy (Orin Kerr), Approaching Arguments That Have A Racist Past
• Volokh Conspiracy (Eugene Volokh), A View from an Incoming Harvard 1L
• Volokh Conspiracy (Eugene Volokh), The Limits of Caution, Judgment, and Tact as Protection
• Volokh Conspiracy (Eugene Volokh), Caution About Sending E-Mails — and About Trust
• Volokh Conspiracy (Eugene Volokh), If You Don’t Have “Scientific Creds,” “STFU”
• Volokh Conspiracy (Eugene Volokh), Be Careful. Trust No-One. Shut Up.