“A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi . . . has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It’s not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.”
- Thurgood Marshall
I believe he managed to do quite well both for himself, his nation, and the court. And not only in that particular order.
And yet the many comments yesterday prove that this site and the nation indeed still has too many of what are commonly referred to as “peckerwoods” – in this case not so much a racist epithet as an apt description of folks either already associated with or wanting (or more appropriately in the case of the Turd Reich trolls, yearning) to be associated with racist and/or neo-Nazi groups, and especially in their case espousing racist and homophobic, misogynist, and otherwise both ignorant and hate filled rhetoric and lies.
Remember this quote -
“A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi . . . has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It’s not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.”
- Thurgood Marshall
I believe he managed to do quite well both for himself, his nation, and the court. And not only in that particular order.
And yet the many comments yesterday prove that this site and the nation indeed still has too many of what are commonly referred to as “peckerwoods” – in this case not so much a racist epithet as an apt description of folks either already associated with or wanting (or more appropriately in the case of the Turd Reich trolls, yearning) to be associated with racist and/or neo-Nazi groups, and especially in their case espousing racist and homophobic, misogynist, and otherwise both ignorant and hate filled rhetoric and lies.