The Osher Lifelong Learning 
Institute hosted a talk by 
Professor 
Jeffrey 
Bernstein 
titled “The 2020 Democratic 
Nomination: 
Who 
Gets 
to 
Choose, the Parties or the 
Voters?” on Wednesday at the 
Kellogg Eye Center auditorium. 
The event was attended by 
more than 100 members of 
the University of Michigan 
community. 
Bernstein 
is 
an 
award-
winning professor of political 
science at Eastern Michigan 
University. The talk focused on 
the evolution of the nomination 

process, the transfer of power 
from the parties to voters over 
time and the implications of 
this transfer. 
Bernstein 
began 
by 
explaining 
the 
importance 
of such talks in the current 
political climate. 
“I think we’re living in a time 
right now where neutrality 
and sitting on the sidelines 
and looking at politics and 
saying, 
‘Someone 
else 
can 
handle it: that’s not my thing,’ 
I don’t think we’re there right 
now,” Bernstein said. “These 
are highly charged and very 
interesting 
political 
times, 
and I’m glad to have the 
opportunity to be here and talk 
a little bit about what’s going 

on and a little bit about what’s 
happening in the world.”
Bernstein 
elaborated 
on 
the basic differences in the 
rule-setting 
procedures 
for 
nominations 
between 
the 
Republican 
and 
Democratic 
Parties, 
highlighting 
the 
relatively dynamic nature of 
the 
Democratic 
nomination 
process. 
“The 
Republican 
Party 
has a rule: that nomination 
procedures 
for 
the 
next 
election 
get 
dealt 
with 
at 
the 
Convention,” 
Bernstein 
said. 
“The 
Democrats 
are 
able to change the rules and 
continually evolve the rules. 
That creates a problem — it 
creates a challenge, a moving 

target really, for figuring out 
what the Democrats are doing 
and who stands to gain or to 
lose from it.”
One of the aims of the event 
was to inform the audience 
about the way the Democratic 
nomination process has evolved 
over time. Bernstein explained 
the transfer of power from the 
delegates at the Democratic 
National Convention to the 
voters 
by 
referencing 
the 
events of the 1968 Democratic 
Convention, when Sen. Eugene 
McCarthy, D-Minn., challenged 
incumbent President Lyndon B. 
Johnson. 

The 
restorative 
justice 
component 
typically 
entails 
either group or peer-to-peer 
meetings between perpetrator 
and victim but will be crafted 
on the comfort level of the 
victims. Graden stressed the 
importance of the educational 
component 
to 
ensure 
the 
impact of the racial slur used in 
the text is fully understood and 
never used again in the District. 
“Understanding 
the 
implications 
of 
that 
term, 
understanding the historical 
context of how that word has 
been used over time is incredibly 
important for us to make sure 
the students understand and 
internalize,” Graden said. “I 
think it’s important for us to be 
able to learn about the history 

of that word, and they may 
have lacked awareness prior 
to this week, but there should 
be no scenario where they lack 
awareness following our steps 
to educate them as to what and 
why that word should never be 
used.” 
At a Tuesday night school 
board meeting, MLive reported 
that Karamba Kaba, a Black 
Saline High School student who 
was added to the group chat, 
expressed feeling frustrated 
and unsafe after the incident. 
“I honestly hope you can 
do 
something 
to 
make 
us 
feel comfortable walking the 
hallways of that school,” Kaba 
said. “I feel like everybody is 
looking at me the wrong way.”
Graden said the District is 
taking efforts to make students 
of color feel safe in the school 
district by explicitly calling 
out the language as racist 

and 
integrating 
educational 
opportunities 
inside 
and 
outside the classroom. 
The 
Saline 
High 
School 
student body is nearly 90 
percent white, while only 3 
percent of students are Black. 
LSA senior Kevin Schnitzer 
graduated from Saline three 
years ago, and his younger 
brother is a current student 
at the high school. Schnitzer 
said he remembers multiple 
incidents when Saline students 
made racist comments, and 
said all were internally handled 
by the District. According to 
Schnitzer, the lack of diversity 
in Saline as a city and school 
district could exacerbate this 
problem.
“I don’t know how much 
the school board talks about 
it or anything, but a lot of 
people say it’s a super white 
school, and I mean, it’s kind 

of true,” Schnitzer said. “The 
vast majority of students there 
are white, that’s just Saline 
residents. A lot more of them 
are white than anything else 
In a letter sent to school 
district community members, 
Graden said Saline High School 
administrators 
conducted 
an investigation and found 
the incident to be an “act of 
racism” that caused harm to all 
of the District’s students, but 
especially students of color. 
“Our School and our District 
find the words used in these 
posts to be deplorable and we 
strongly denounce the actions 
and words of these students,” 
the letter read. “This is an 
opportunity for us — the staff, 
students, and community of 
Saline Area Schools — to stand 
for anti-racism, respect, and 
inclusion of all students.”

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