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2016 Utah L. Rev. OnLaw 101 (2016)

handle is hein.journals/utlronla5 and id is 1 raw text is: IN FISHER V. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS DERRICK BELL'S INTEREST CONVERGENCE THEORY IS ON A COLLISION COURSE WITH THE VIEWPOINT DIVERSITY RATIONALE IN HIGHER EDUCATION L. Darnell Weeden INTRODUCTION Professor Derrick Bell is necessarily and properly acknowledged because of his leading community service as a civil rights lawyer, a scholarly intellectual, law professor, and political activist.1 Professor Derrick Bell helped to set in place the basis for Critical Race Theory.2 After Professor Bell became a member of the faculty of Harvard Law School in 1969, he shared his experience and reflections regarding the civil rights movement and issues of racial inequality with the academic community in a very profound and prolific manner.3 Because of his views about the permanence of racism and the intransigence of inequality generally, Professor Bell and critical race theorists have mistakenly been considered to be pessimists.,4 While establishing an outstanding legal legacy, Professor Bell worked to connect law, scholarship, and the struggle for social justice, an endeavor that critical race theorists also adopted and continue to further today.5 One commentator has described the late Professor Derrick Bell as the founder of the Critical Race Theory movement.,6 Over the course of my career, I have met and talked with Professor Bell more than once, and I will describe him as an intellectual giant committed to both racial equality and social justice. Although I have great respect for Professor Bell as a courageous man of principle, I nevertheless believe Professor Bell's interest convergence theory in the context of diversity in higher education merits reconsideration by others. Professor, Thurgood Marshall School Of Law, Texas Southern University; B.A., J.D., University of Mississippi. I extend a special word of thanks to my wife and children for their endurance while I completed this article. 1See Derrick Bell Official Site, http://professorderrickbell.com/ (last visited February 9, 2015). 2 Id. 3 See Derrick Bell Official Site, http://professorderrickbell.com/scholarship/ (last visited February 9, 2015). ' Id. 5 Id. 6 Elvia R. Arriola, It's Not Over: Empowering The Different Voice In Legal Academia, 29 Berkeley J. Gender L. & Just. 320, 325 (2014).

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