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The sincerest form of flattery.

THEY SAY THAT IMITATION is the sincerest form of flattery. Professor Dan Subotnik's "Are Law Schools Racist?: A "Talk" with Richard Delgado"' adopts my signature dialogue format and even some of my characters to make a number of points of his own. I ought to feel complimented, but I confess I am not. Professor Subotnik's article is littered with missteps of fact and of taste. A crude imitation of the original, it fails to get basic points about the Rodrigo series right. And its chief criticism-that I use the dialogue format to escape responsibility for my views-is demonstrably false. I have made practically every point that appears in the Rodrigo chronicles ("Chronicles") elsewhere in straight, expository prose bearing my name alone. More importantly, I detect a drift to Subotnik's slips, all of which lie in a certain direction. Far from mere oversights or glitches, they offer a telling glimpse into the author's mindset. I discuss some of these errors in Part I. In Part II, I show what they mean and what they indicate about Subotnik's covert intentions.