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Sherrilyn Ifill
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A Republican who, with the stroke of a pen, cancelled the Red Line, a rapid transit project that was potentially the greatest investment in Black communities in Baltimore.
The project imagined 10,000 construction jobs over years, an apprenticeship program at Edmondson HS for construction trades, small bus opportunities & most of all mobility for Black residents of the city to access jobs & education.
We filed a civil rights complaint with the Dept of Transportation naacpldf.org/press-release/… which (you guessed it) the Trump Admin’s DOT (Elaine Chao) closed w/o investigation.
Learn abt Gov Hogan’s cancellation of the #RedLine and our lawsuit here. theguardian.com/us-news/2015/d…
The Obama DOT was holding over $900 million for Baltimore’s #RedLine when Gov Hogan cancelled. Then Sen. Mikulski out it plainly:
theguardian.com/us-news/2015/d…
When the Trump Admin DOT abruptly closed the investigation into our civil rights complaint challenging Gov Hogan’s decision I called it “shameful.” naacpldf.org/press-release/… Even more shameful for this Pres to now disparage the City his Admin & a Republican Gov treated this way.
How abt when the Trump Admin Dept under AG Jeff Sessions tried to scuttle the policing consent decree even though the DOJ’s own rpt showed an appalling pattern of unconstitutional policing? Thank goodness the fed judge refused to allow the DOJ to delay it. baltimoresun.com/maryland/balti…
Two excerpts describing #Baltimore from the 2016 DOJ report about unconstitutional policing that you must know to understand this City. justice.gov/opa/file/88336…
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Sherrilyn Ifill
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Here's what we do know about the judicial nominees that McConnell is trying to fast track: 11 of the 19 refused to say that Brown v. Board was correctly decided. Call your Senators. 202-224-3121
Brantley Starr, is one of the judges McConnell is attempting to push through w/o full consideration. In addition to his refusal to affirm that Brown was correctly decided he has defended voter suppression laws & defiance by county clerks of the SCOTUS marriage equality decision.
It’s critical that you call yr Senator. Tell them that you do not want a package of 19 judges confirmed by “consent” for lifetime appts. Each judge should be evaluated, debated on, & subject to a roll call vote.Fight for your democracy. Whoever yr Sen is, call them 202-224-3121.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
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Yes. And the constant feigned naivete (“were the tweets racist? “Is racism at the heart of this or that?”) and absolute ignorance about the history of racism & racist public policies would not be permitted in any other field.
We had an entire week of writing & on air news stories about school desegregation and busing led by writers & commentators with virtually no expertise in the field - addressing one of the most transformative and convulsive efforts of 20th century America.
The lack of respect & seriousness accorded writing abt racism is why racist voter suppression practices - found by fed judges in Tx, NC, Wisc. - was not framed in 2016 as a danger to our democracy & a reflection of an ugly & explicit strain of white supremacy in state houses.
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Yesterday’s centennial anniversary of the Chicago Race Riot compelled me to dig into 1919, @eveewing ‘s new book of poems abt this pogrom & the Great Migration refugees who settled in Chicago from the south in the early 1900s. It is superb.
I am so moved by this presentation of the interior lives of those who fled southern violence w/ dreams & hopes & found disappointment & northern oppression.There are devastating lines that have stayed in my head: “The lash lives in their shoulders.”
And this devatating jewel @eveewing: “hearts broken at their belief/that leaving the darkness/meant finding the sun.” Whew! The poem “sightseers” speaks directly into this moment - challenging those who Hannah Arendt cautions “never made up their minds to be good or evil.”
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