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37 Loy. L. Rev. 231 (1991-1992)
The Political Correctness Scare

handle is hein.journals/loyolr37 and id is 245 raw text is: THE POLITICAL CORRECTNESS SCARE Randall Kennedy* THE SIXTH ANNUAL BRENDAN BROWN LECTURE April 15, 1991, Loyola University, New Orleans I am deeply honored to deliver the 1991 Brendan Brown Lec- ture and would like to thank Dean Louis Westerfield and the faculty of the Loyola Law School for inviting me.1 Before I turn to my main subject-the campaign against political correctness-I would like to note that my visit here calls to mind two people who have had an enormous and beneficent affect on my life. The first is my father, Henry Harold Kennedy, Jr., who spent his formative years in New Orleans. Sightseeing has taken on a special meaning since I am now viewing for the first time some of the places I have heard him describe on many occasions, frequently with mirth, sometimes with sadness. The second is an alumnus of the Loyola Law School, Judge J. Skelly Wright, for whom I once clerked. I am not competent to comment on whether Loyola has prop- erly memorialized Judge Wright. I do know, however, that some of the greatest graduates of the institution at which I teach, Harvard Law School, are virtually ignored by the school. Here I am think- ing in particular about Charles Sumner and Wendell Phillips, both of whom were extraordinary leaders in the struggle against slavery. I hope that Loyola Law School celebrates the accomplishments of Judge Wright for he was an extraordinary figure who reflected and reinforced the best that is .in our legal traditions. As a judge on * Professor of Law, Harvard Law School. 1. This published version of the lecture differs considerably from the version that was verbally delivered. The staff of the Loyola Law Review gave me time to update and revise that lecture. I deeply appreciate its mature judgment and unstinting assistance. 2. See A.S. MILLER, A CAPACITY FOR OUTRAGE: THE JUDICIAL ODYSSEY OF J. SKELLY WRIGHT (1984). This volume contains a useful annotated bibliography of writings by and about Judge Wright. Id. at 233-35. See also Symposium--Judge J. Skelly Wright: Thirty Years, 7 HASTINGS CONST. L.Q. 855-999 (1980). Useful as well are the tributes written by associates of Judge Wright in the wake of his death. See, e.g., In Memoriam: J. Skelly Wright, 102 HARV. L. REV. 361-74 (1988) (essays by William J. Brennan, Jr.; Patricia M. Wald; Richard Parker; Bill Monroe).

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