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This 3 page paper is filled with statistics about the percentage of black lawyers and law school students. Why there is a disproportionate number of whites in law school is discussed. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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In 1970, there were just 3,845 (Harris & Kidder, 2005, p.105) black lawyers in the United States, but by 2000, more than 39,000 (Harris & Kidder, 2005, p.105)
black lawyers emerged from the law schools of America. Some claim that the standards have been lowered due to affirmative action, and also, that black students do not do as
well as their white counterparts anyway. Of course, such studies have been disputed and there is much argument in this area. It is rather ironic to discuss this subject
in 2008 when a black man is running for president. Not only is Barack Obama black, but he attended one of the best law schools in the nation. Anna Quindlen
(2008) reports that there is rumor that Obama did not include his race on his law school application so that others would not perceive him as getting ahead due to
affirmative action. Obviously, Barack Obama is an aberration and he probably would have succeeded at anything he put his mind towards. In general, fewer black than white men and women
attend law school. In fact, there are only approximately 4.2% of black judges and lawyers in the United States today("Benham Law Camp aims to increase number of African American lawyers
and judges," 2008). This is true even though the African American population is slightly under 13% of the total U.S. population ("Benham Law Camp aims to increase number of African
American lawyers and judges," 2008). The statistics do suggest that there is a disproportionate amount of white people in these professions and there is other corroborating evidence of this as
well. White people sat for 79% of LSAT tests in 1990 and they also accounted for 85% of the population in law school (Olivas, 2008). The rest of the school
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