First Black Woman Elected president of the Harvard Law Review

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Ms. Umana said she was keenly aware of the divide between the elite ecosystem in which she was immersed and the lives of the marginalized women she hopes to represent. “I can’t help but think of the multitude of young black women who will never be anywhere near such an amount of privilege,” she said.

As she spoke, she almost seemed to suggest that she was dedicating her tenure to those women, particularly those who had died.

“I’m especially humbled,” she said, “to serve as the first black woman president of the law review because of them.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/27/...n=click&contentCollection=U.S.&pgtype=article

 

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Inb4 any mentions of "Olivia Pope".

GOAT'd for the simple fact that she said this and not some coon shit trashing Black people.

“I’m constantly reminded of people like Natasha McKenna and Tanisha Anderson and Sandra Bland, whose relationships with the law were just simply tragic,” she said.

Unlike the vast majority of graduates of the nation’s top law schools, Ms. Umana says she has no interest in joining a high-paying corporate firm. Her dream for now is to become a public defender, a goal she set after an eye-opening internship last summer in the public defender’s office in the Bronx. She plans to work this summer with the public defender in Washington.