Rutgers Law School, Camden Campus. Credit: Mrtoren via Wikimedia Commons On the Rutgers Law Racial Slur Issue
Bowdlerized classroom discussion will not properly prepare law students for the world as it is, however much they hope to make it a better place.
May 30, 2021 at 10:00 AM
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A furor has been raging at Rutgers Law School when a student in an online discussion quoted a racial slur that was reported in the Supreme Court decision in State v. Bridges, 133 N.J. 447 (1993). The decision quoted the murder defendant as declaring, "I'm going back to Trenton to get my [gang]." He did not use the word "gang" but instead, the familiar racial epithet, which was spelled out in full in the opinion. We do not include the epithet here because it is well understood, and an exact quote would add nothing to the discussion.
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