Searle famously argued that the treatment of landlords in Berkeley was comparable to the treatment of black people in the south ...

oh wow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Searle#Political_activity

I personally struggle to imagine what it would be like to have an untouchable philosophy professor that does not see the difference between purchasing a seventeen unit apartment building in Berkeley, California and being born black in the south. Sadly I was not there in the twenty five to twenty nine years between him making that argument and his departure from the university to experience that