Black History, within the subject matter of US History, has always been irrelevant. The fact of slavery and the story of the US Civil War are given lip service in K-12, but white people, who have historically controlled the subject matters taught in all of public education, have never found the stories of black people interesting enough to learn about, let alone teach. How dare we teach our children of a subject we know nothing of, ourselves?!? We can’t teach children about the racism and crimes of our forefathers. The truth just hurts too much, and makes us feel bad about ourselves. (Which only shows that overt racists like Ron DeSantis actually feel very, very guilty about who they are. Facing the truth about who they are gives them a sad, so they make damned sure that nobody knows anything about everything. That’s the law!!!)
It’s reassuring to see SC Smith and Judge Upadhyaya laying down markers and getting out in front of what experience says is all but certain to happen.
Do I gather correctly that issuing these warnings and defining the limits on the use of discovery oils the wheels for sanctioning the Orange Shitgibbon (h/t @ralph_vonholst) when he does what is seemingly inevitable?
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Meet the Fuckers
Clarence Thomas is so breathtakingly corrupt even Rod Blagojevich looks on in rapt admiration and jealousy.
Nor in my time in law school.
Florida?
Haha. (I kid, I kid)
I’m sure Rod was confident that he’d be the exemplar of public corruption for at least a generation.
After Donnie and Judge Thomas, all he can do is hang his head, ashamed he wasn’t up to playing with the big boys.
They were at the Ellipse, but didn’t go to the barricades, the Capitol.
Do you really think Eastman or Rudy would get their own hands dirty? That’s what riled up minions are for.
When I was but a tyke, I knew from fairy tales that a person’s happiness depends on whether the kingdom they live in is good or bad. As I grew up, I was always asking my mom questions about the place we lived, trying to judge for myself if I had a good king or bad king.
Yes, “we have presidents, not kings” threw me for a loop, until “Social Studies” in elementary school. That was one of the first things I interpreted as a sign that my fairy tale wouldn’t be a bad one. I thought the very best sign was that America abolished slavery and passed the Reconstruction Amendments. The final touch was when I learned about how Watergate ended Nixon’s presidency (although I was not heartened to see that the villain was allowed to slink away).
So it has been hard to see all of those things being systematically attacked over decades by the GOP, and to see their efforts rewarded and expanded.
In my opinion, by reviving Reconstruction Era remedies to destroy this wannabe tyrant, Jack Smith is doing a lot to make America great again.
So far I’d rate Jack Smith 
, tied with Garland and Diamond Joe himself.
I’m sure John and Rudy had no intention of getting handcuffed or gassed with the hoi polloi.
They’re brain workers, after all, regardless of how shamelessly they metaphorically get their hands dirty.
(h/t @lasroth)
I don’t think Judge Chutkan is gonna play patty cake with Donnie’s legal team, unlike that tool in Florida, who, IIRC, was happy to let Team Donnie drag out the process of producing a protective order required by the law on classified docs trials/discovery.
Rousing indeed! I still remembers scenes in it from a production at my college in 1970. I was invited as an incoming freshman.
Two questions:
I’m wondering if purposely making fewer polling locations in certain (read: Black neighborhoods) violates these laws?
Second: will this SCOTUS overturn any conviction of this century’s Cruickshank- Trump? I wouldn;t be surprised.
Growing up on the fringes of the expanding western suburbs of Chicago, there were no black students or families, until 1975, after I graduated from high school. What I did have were teachers who did not gloss over slavery, civil rights or Black history. I recall in junior high being shocked and disgusted to hear about slavery. How they were captured, what they endured on their journey to the US. The whippings, beatings and punishments, the conditions they endured.
In high school for US history, again there was no glossing over the inhumanity. Every year, on the anniversary of MLK Jr’s death on April 4, 1968, morning announcements were a reminder that he had been assassinated for wanting equality and then they played his I Have a Dream speech. Not sure how long they continued, but this would have been from 1971-74.
Senior year, a survey was given to all students. Basically “How would you feel about Black students attending Lake Park High School” next year. A nearby company had transferred an executive. He was hesitant to accept the position and move to such a lily white area. Survey was overwhelmingly positive.
Not sure how we ended up being so progressive in the school, but it definitely set a good foundation for me. Just a little pocket of sanity and common sense. Not everyone felt that way, but I lucked out
To reconfigure a phrase from the Queen of Mean (Leonna Helmsley,) the little people wear handcuffs.