It’s the last Friday in Pride Month, and one day after the right-wing justices of the Supreme Court declared that it’s time to end the oppression of Whites in academia. So today’s earworm is Cyndi Lauper’s “True Colors”.
I’ve only
skimmed the decision—meaning, what Legal Twitter
posted in the hours immediately following the release. How Clarence Thomas and
Amy Coney Barratt can look in a mirror and see nothing of their hypocritical
weaselry after benefiting from affirmative action their entire careers, I do
not know. (Although Uncle Tom does indeed have a long history of pulling up the
ladder after climbing to the next floor.) Alito, Roberts, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh—well,
they’re the very personification of White male privilege; you knew they had it
in them.
And invoking
Thurgood Marshall in their defense…excuse me while I hurl.
As with their
decision on Dobbs last year, I have no doubt in the world that this decision
will be overturned. But—as with Dobbs—there will be a whole lotta pain and
backsliding until that happens.
Meanwhile, Cyndi
reminds us that it takes all colors to make a rainbow. And perhaps it’s good to
reflect that rainbows appear when the sun breaks through a storm.
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