Edward Markey: “When I was starting in law school, it was like 5% of the…”

“We'll come back across and let everyone give their concluding statements to this incredibly brilliant audience that we have here. By the way, even when you're talking about this discrimination, when I was starting a law school, When I was starting in law school, it was like 5% of the class was black and 5% were women. Well, nothing's still law school right now. 75% are women and minorities. Huh. They got smart very fast. It was a discriminatory bias built into the admissions process.” (10:48–10:53)

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