Friends, read this. @emarvelous interviewed Judge Jackson's college roommates, who *all* applied to @Harvard_Law together, got in, and remained life long friends. This is a fantastic story:
Here's a really nice quote to tease the rest: “Ketanji was the first to say, ‘I’m not just grateful to be here, I deserve to be here, and I’m going to take up space in this ivory tower,’” Simmons said.
Sorry, I'm reading this story and thinking "My college boys better have my back like this or I swear I'll kill them"
Not for nothing but... @emarvelous has now conducted a more thorough investigation into the college behavior of Ketanji Brown Jackson than FBI DIRECTOR Chris Wray did into Brett Kavanaugh. She LITERALLY INTERVIEWED more of her friends than Wray did interviewed Kav's friends.
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This judge done cried? She cried? Where at the "GIVING WHITE WOMEN A SLAP ON THE WRIST FOR MURDER MAKES ME CRY" stage of the proceedings? I just... wow. WOW. This judge cried. Cried y'all. Cried.
I can't... I can't believe this. I'm functionally speechless.
Imagine hating black people so much that you ask black parents to have sympathy with the white person who murdered their son while sentencing her to significantly less time than the guidelines suggest.
I have to do something terrifying today: I am the mystery guest for my 6yo's 1st grade class. You're kind of supposed to share something about your job or family.
So I'm going to do some critical media training with the kids.
I'll have the kids pick the who what when where why and then we'll tell a story where the protag is the hero. THEN, same facts, we'll tell a story where the protag is the villain. Kids can see how changing the tone and adjectives can change our whole sense of the truth.
Lesson: Consider the source. I've done this before for 1st graders. Kids more or less had a good time.
But I also know that it'll be like 10 minutes of me talking and 5 minutes of "can I touch your hair." Which of course I let them. Because SIX YEARS OLD is when that's okay.
Okay... who am I supposed to read to explain freaking Canada to me so I can appear educated and informed about the world
No. I'm not looking to learn about Canada generally. Like... I don't... care?? Exactly.
Just want to understand the current trucker thingy. Cause there's no @SouthPark episode on it yet I don't think.
Me: Why are rural whites even in Canada so susceptible to this right wing graft?
[Sees Pat King's theories on race]
Me: Oh, yeah. Never that far below the surface is it.
Wife and I watched No Time To Die last night and agreed that it's the worst Bond since the Dalton era and that's maybe being unfair to Dalton.
I mean by the point they were all "you can be 007" I was literally shouting "NOBODY CARES" at my television.
[as they put the final plans into motion]
Wife: The science doesn't add...
Me: WHAT SCIENCE??? There are MAGIC SYSTEMS more grounded in reality than this!
And I just REFUSE to accept the universe where allegedly bad ass Black lady 007
A: Kills the unarmed scientist for some racial insensitivity as opposed to his LITERAL GENOCIDE PLOT
B: Gets on the boat WITH THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN instead of finishing the mission
So I had the realist conversation with my 9yo about the n-word so far just now.
I guess a black friend at school said that another black person called him the word (not at school) and the friend was confused, as was my kid. Who also didn't know why it's such a "bad" word anyway.
So, I explained that any word can be turned into a slur if you say it often enough, about one group of people, with enough hate in your heart. I then started calling people "stupid SPOONS." "I'm going to to STEAL your Pokemon cards, you dumb ugly SPOON"
I explained that after a while, the word "spoon" would hurt you even without the other words, and that the n-word was the word white people have chosen to use against us for hundreds of years.
I said, to fight back, some black people have tried to take the word back...
People need to stop saying that conservatives on the court are "like" Jim Crow. We are beyond that now. Now the Court is just DOING what the Court DID in the Jim Crow era.
It's just... the same. All that's missing is the violent vigilante enforcement of those rulings.
Like, understand, some states, some of the time, are always going to try to be racist when it comes to voting. Apartheid is in the very DNA of the "state's rights" argument.
The ONLY question is whether the Federal Government will stop them.
The Supreme Court doesn't have to *do* the racism. It just has to let the racism happen by pretending the 14th and 15th Amendment don't exist. That's what it did ever day from 1877 to 1954. That's what's it's done every day since 2013.