It's hard to know what's more troubling: that a star student at Harvard Law School slated to start a prestigious federal clerkship with one of the nation's highest-ranking judges would publicly suggest that Blacks are genetically less intelligent than whites, or the fact that she would be put those inflammatory comments in an e-mail and hit the send button.
But today, Stephanie Grace, a third-year law student and editor at the Harvard Law Review who sent the controversial e-mail to two friends six months ago is frantically trying to salvage what's left of her tarnished reputation. Grace was unavailable for comment.
Grace's e-mail ignited a firestorm on college campuses, the blogosphere and media outlets after her comments were forwarded to the Harvard Black Law Students Association and eventually made their way to other student groups at law schools across the country. The controversy was first reported by the legal blog, Above the Law. Grace's identity was initially protected by the editors, but many media outlets and bloggers have identified Grace as the author.
"As comment moderators fought to keep her name off their site, Stephanie apparently navigated to Facebook and began scrubbing herself from the Internet, presumably to minimize how closely the imbroglio would be tied to her name, face, and reputation," gawker.com reports.
The Harvard Black Law Students Association has since released an open letter condemning Grace's comments.
-http://www.diversityinc.com/article/7560/Harvard-Law-Student-EMail-Claims-Blacks-Less-Intelligent-Than-Whites/
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