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Thank you. When Leon Bass initially called me and asked me to speak at this symposium, he told me that the symposium was entitled" Education For Black Power In The Eighties." Since that title, has been dropped, I will adopt it as the first portion of my title," Education For Black Power in the Eighties: Present Day Implications of the Bakke Decision." I want to begin with a quote from a famous or not so famous (though he ought to be famous) 17th century intellectual and freedom fighter named Martin Delaney. He said that," no people can be free who themselves do not constitute an essential part of the ruling element of the country in which they live." 1" Education for Black power in the Eighties." I like the sound of this original topic for this symposium. It seems far too long since I've heard those words" Black Power!" chanted on a hot dusty Mississippi road by a young SNCC2 worker in 1966." Black Power!" Words that …