In yet another reminder that you can not get a chance to correct poorly thought out e-mail messages, a Harvard 3rd year law school student has potentially damaged her career.

Evidently last night an unidentified HLS 3rd year sent an e-mail message, in an attempt to _clarify_ remarks, which included:

“I absolutely do not rule out the possibility that African Americans are, on average, genetically predisposed to be less intelligent. I could also obviously be convinced that by controlling for the right variables, we would see that they are, in fact, as intelligent as white people under the same circumstances. The fact is, some things are genetic. African Americans tend to have darker skin. Irish people are more likely to have red hair.” (h/t AboveTheLaw.com )

Here’s Jezebel’s coverage

Yikes… worse the original e-mail made it around the country to Black Law Students Associations, but the kicker is the e-mail included the student’s full name and plans for a federal clerkship on graduation…

If the information contained in the e-mail expresses someone’s actual views on race, intellectual capacity, American history and more embarrassingly genetics you have to wonder what the value of a law degree is these days.

It will be interesting to see how the person has to deal with their ideas given that their professional choice of career will consist of a lot of writing and e-mailing….

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