Sadden to learn that Lani Guinier has passed away.
She taught me pretty much everything I know about voting right and, more importantly, she taught me to be passionate about protecting them and defending them.
She taught me pretty much everything I know about voting right and, more importantly, she taught me to be passionate about protecting them and defending them.
See, when I was in law school, I was one of these Black kids you meet now and again who thought that at least some of the "victories" of the civil rights movement, especially over Jim Crow, were "permanent." That these battles had been fought *and won*.
Guinier, in the early 2000s mind you, taught me that no, these rights were *still* under attack. She opened my eyes to the *ongoing* attacks on voting rights launched by conservatives.
In 2005, after I had graduated, I emailed her about Bush's new nominee to the Court, John Roberts. It was Guinier who told me about his history, his longstanding *opposition* to the Voting Rights Act.
I rarely use this turn of phrase, but Rest In Power, Professor Guinier, the first woman of color tenured at Harvard Law School.
There were few clearer voices about how to protect the rights of people of color in this country.
There were few clearer voices about how to protect the rights of people of color in this country.
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