Vishwas Gaitonde<p>'How A Schoolboy's Punishment Benefited America'<br>🤔<br>The teacher who punished Thurgood Marshall at school had no idea how that punishment would one day change the social landscape of the United States<br><a href="https://medium.com/@weareji/how-a-schoolboys-punishment-benefited-america-cc7720eebd9c?sk=2b9544ddeb907fcd296bc5253c55a959" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">medium.com/@weareji/how-a-scho</span><span class="invisible">olboys-punishment-benefited-america-cc7720eebd9c?sk=2b9544ddeb907fcd296bc5253c55a959</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/segregation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>segregation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ThurgoodMarshall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThurgoodMarshall</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/race" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>race</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/schools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>schools</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/punishment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punishment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>America</span></a></p>
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BLK News Now!<p>"Democracy just cannot flourish amid fear. Liberty cannot bloom amid hate. Justice cannot take root amid rage." — <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThurgoodMarshall" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ThurgoodMarshall</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BlackHistory</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>[Thread] So, it took having to do a search on the website, but I managed to find the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistoryMonth</span></a> audio archives on the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WMPG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WMPG</span></a> website. Hopefully, the ones from 2025 will also be posted on their website (and the ones already posted won't disappear...).</p><p>Black History month - daily short history audio features</p><p>Posted February 3, 2021 by 'mpger</p><p>"Everyday in the month of February (Black history month), WMPG is airing a short audio feature about an influential Black man or woman in history. We’ll hear about people from Maine to Malawi. We celebrate scientists, radicals, teachers, preachers, musicians, athletes, and those who fought to followed their dreams. You can hear them all again right here: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BillieHoliday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BillieHoliday</span></a> , <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LeonardCummings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LeonardCummings</span></a> , <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaconBollingAllen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaconBollingAllen</span></a> , <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HarrietTubman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HarrietTubman</span></a> , <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NelsonMandela" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NelsonMandela</span></a> , <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ShirleyChisholm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShirleyChisholm</span></a> , <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MarshaPJohnson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarshaPJohnson</span></a> , <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GordonParks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GordonParks</span></a> , <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JackieRobinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JackieRobinson</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AngelaDavis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AngelaDavis</span></a> , <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThurgoodMarshall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThurgoodMarshall</span></a> , <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StevieWonder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StevieWonder</span></a> , <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Lizzo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lizzo</span></a> , <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CornellWest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CornellWest</span></a> , <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TrevorNoah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrevorNoah</span></a> , <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaeJemison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaeJemison</span></a> , <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TaranaBurke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TaranaBurke</span></a> , <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AlvinAiley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlvinAiley</span></a> , <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JosephineBaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JosephineBaker</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RhiannonGiddens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RhiannonGiddens</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SunRa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SunRa</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaverneCox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LaverneCox</span></a>."</p><p>Link to mp3 audio files:<br><a href="https://www.wmpg.org/black-history-month-daily-short-history-audio-features/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wmpg.org/black-history-month-d</span><span class="invisible">aily-short-history-audio-features/</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackMusicians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMusicians</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackHistoricalFigures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistoricalFigures</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CommunityRadio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityRadio</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WMPGFM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WMPGFM</span></a></p>
Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p>Dec 1 1955, 69 years ago:</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RosaParks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RosaParks</span></a> refused to give up her bus seat and became a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> icon</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BrowdervGayle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BrowdervGayle</span></a> ruled public transport <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/segregation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>segregation</span></a> unconstitutional in 1956, but Rosa was not party to it- her case was stuck in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Alabama" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Alabama</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/courts" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>courts</span></a>. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Lawyer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Lawyer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FredGray" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FredGray</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NAACP" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NAACP</span></a>'s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThurgoodMarshall" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ThurgoodMarshall</span></a> used earlier cases of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blackwomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>blackwomen</span></a> refusing to give up their seats for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Federal" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Federal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Court" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Court</span></a> action:</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClaudetteColvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClaudetteColvin</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MaryLouiseSmith" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MaryLouiseSmith</span></a></p><p>Ancient history?</p><p>Fred, Claudette and Mary are all alive today</p>
Veada<p>ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY - On October 2, 1967, Chief Justice Earl Warren swore in <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ThurgoodMarshall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThurgoodMarshall</span></a> as the first black Supreme Court justice in the nation’s history.</p>
LilMikeSF<p><a href="https://c.im/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> 1967, <a href="https://c.im/tags/ThurgoodMarshall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThurgoodMarshall</span></a> was confirmed by US Senate as a US <a href="https://c.im/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> Justice, sworn in only 18 days after Pres. Johnson signed the <a href="https://c.im/tags/VotingRightsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VotingRightsAct</span></a> and 13 days after the race riots in Watts. <br> <br> The great-grandson of slaves, and first ever <a href="https://c.im/tags/AfricanAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AfricanAmerican</span></a> to serve on the highest court in the land, Marshall had graduated <a href="https://c.im/tags/HowardUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HowardUniversity</span></a> law school in 1933. As a lawyer he'd previously won 29 of 32 legal cases argued before <a href="https://c.im/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a>, including Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, which ruled school segregation in Topeka KS, and by default elsewhere throughout the USA was not only crappy, but <a href="https://c.im/tags/unconstitutional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unconstitutional</span></a>. </p><p>His 24 year tenure on the court, included anti discrimination cases and opposition to the death penalty, and service extended through retirement in 1991, with him passing away at the age of 84 in 1993.</p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History July 17, 1944: Two ammunition ships exploded at Port Chicago, CA (now known as the Concord Naval Weapons Center). The explosion killed 322 sailors, including 202 African-Americans assigned by the Navy to handle explosives. The explosion could be seen 35 miles away in San Francisco, across the Bay. In response, 258 African-Americans refused to return to the dangerous work, initiating what would be known as the Port Chicago Mutiny. 50 of the men were convicted and sentenced to hard labor. 47 were released in 1946. During their court proceedings, Thurgood Marshall, working then for the NAACP, prepared an appeal campaign, noting that only black men had been assigned to the dangerous munitions loading job. At the time, navy had over 100,000 black sailors, but no black officers. Beginning in 1990, a group of 25 Congressional leaders began a campaign to exonerate the mutineers. However, Congress did not exonerate the men until 2019.</p><p>In the 1980s, activists regularly protested at the Concord Naval Weapons Center against U.S. arms shipments to the Contras in Nicaragua. These shipments were supposedly secret, and illegal under the Congressional Boland Amendment. The base shipped 60,000 to 120,000 tons of munitions each year to U.S. forces and allies, including the Contras. On September 1, 1987, a weapons train ran over veterans who were blockading the tracks, including Brian Willson, who lost both of his legs, and a portion of his frontal lobe, in the collision. Days later, activists dismantled the train tracks. And for years after, activists maintained a 24-hour vigil at the site. The FBI had been surveilling Willson for more than a year as a “domestic terrorist,” even though all of his activism and protests had been entirely nonviolent. The train crew had been told to not stop the train, even if protesters were on the tracks. </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/brianwillson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>brianwillson</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/portchicago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>portchicago</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ConcordNavalWeaponsCenter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ConcordNavalWeaponsCenter</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nicaragua" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nicaragua</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/contras" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>contras</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sandinistas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sandinistas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/directaction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>directaction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/civildisobedience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>civildisobedience</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fbi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fbi</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mutiny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mutiny</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/weapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>weapons</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/disaster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disaster</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/blm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blm</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/naacp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>naacp</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/thurgoodmarshall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thurgoodmarshall</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/terrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>terrorism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackMastadon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMastadon</span></a></p>
J L Kalman<p>July 2 is the birthday of SCOTUS Justice <a href="https://toot.community/tags/ThurgoodMarshall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThurgoodMarshall</span></a> who we <a href="https://toot.community/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> and back with a picture of a <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Fallbrook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fallbrook</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/sunset" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sunset</span></a>. If this <a href="https://toot.community/tags/quotograph" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotograph</span></a> speaks to you, please repost it.</p>
Laloofah<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ThurgoodMarshall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThurgoodMarshall</span></a>, 1st Black <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> Justice, was BTD in 1908. Grandson of an enslaved person, he helped end legal segregation, & per author Carl T. Rowan, “no justice ever supported a woman's right to choice as uncompromisingly as Marshall did".<br>When he retired due to poor health, his seat was filled by (brace yourself) Clarence effing Thomas. 😡</p><p>"Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on."</p>
Veada<p>Remembering U.S. Supreme Court Justice <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ThurgoodMarshall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThurgoodMarshall</span></a> on his birth anniversary.</p>
iokevins<p>Quote via:</p><p><a href="https://openyls.law.yale.edu/handle/20.500.13051/396?show=full" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">openyls.law.yale.edu/handle/20</span><span class="invisible">.500.13051/396?show=full</span></a></p><p>Hat tip for the reference:</p><p>The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions (2023) - Jonathan Rosen</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThurgoodMarshall" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ThurgoodMarshall</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CrabGumbo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CrabGumbo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cook" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Cook</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JonathanRosen" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JonathanRosen</span></a></p>
iokevins<p>2/2:</p><p>"... so that he always could be sure of a job. Given the racism rampant in Baltimore, or for that matter, in America at that time, no one could possibly have imagined that Thurgood Marshall would someday have the greatest legal career of the twentieth century: chief counsel for the petitioners in Brown v. Board of Education, judge on the Court of Appeals, Solicitor General of the United States, and finally, Supreme Court Justice."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThurgoodMarshall" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ThurgoodMarshall</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CrabGumbo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CrabGumbo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cook" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Cook</span></a></p>
iokevins<p>Thurgood Marshall cooked a great Crab Gumbo:</p><p>"Thurgood Marshall is a fabulous cook. In 1965 he invited me and my wife to his apartment on Amsterdam Avenue in New York and made a crab gumbo, okra and all, that I remember to this day. I was told that I had his grandmother to thank. With a loving irreverence that was fully deserved, she greeted his decision in the late 1920's to study law by insisting that he also learn to cook, ..."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThurgoodMarshall" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ThurgoodMarshall</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CrabGumbo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CrabGumbo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cook" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Cook</span></a></p>
Veada<p>On this day, June 13,1967, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ThurgoodMarshall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThurgoodMarshall</span></a> was the first Black American appointed as a Supreme Court Justice.</p>
Steve Dustcircle 🌹<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThurgoodMarshall" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ThurgoodMarshall</span></a> Was a Mentor. He’d Be Furious with the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> Today</p><p><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/06/02/brown-v-board-of-ed-thurgood-marshall-and-me-00161050" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">politico.com/news/magazine/202</span><span class="invisible">4/06/02/brown-v-board-of-ed-thurgood-marshall-and-me-00161050</span></a></p>
Judy Olo 🚫⚠️kakistocracy🌊<p>Watching <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/SeparateButEqual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SeparateButEqual</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/TCM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TCM</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/SidneyPoitier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SidneyPoitier</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ThurgoodMarshall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThurgoodMarshall</span></a></p>
Laloofah<p>In grateful memory of Justice Thurgood Marshall, who died on Jan 24, 1993. The first Black Supreme Court justice, he played a vital role in ending legal segregation thru the 1954 case, Brown v. Board of Education.<br>His wisdom is greatly missed.<br>"The measure of a country's greatness <br>is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis." <br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ThurgoodMarshall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThurgoodMarshall</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a></p>
Mark W. Alexander<p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/ThingsIlearnedFromComics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThingsIlearnedFromComics</span></a><br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Daredevil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Daredevil</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Netflix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Netflix</span></a> <br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/ThurgoodMarshall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThurgoodMarshall</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> </p><p>Quote by Thurgood Marshall: “We cannot play ostrich. Democracy just cannot f...”<br><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8177099-we-cannot-play-ostrich-democracy-just-cannot-flourish-amid-fear" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">goodreads.com/quotes/8177099-w</span><span class="invisible">e-cannot-play-ostrich-democracy-just-cannot-flourish-amid-fear</span></a></p>
Emily Gladstone Cole<p>Today I got the opportunity to re-read the speech <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ThurgoodMarshall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThurgoodMarshall</span></a> gave when he was awarded the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/LibertyMedal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LibertyMedal</span></a>. It's an amazing speech. My favorite paragraph:</p><p>"We cannot play ostrich. Democracy just cannot flourish amid fear. Liberty cannot bloom amid hate. Justice cannot take root amid rage. America must get to work. In the chill climate in which we live, we must go against the prevailing wind. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust. We must dissent from a nation that has buried its head in the sand, waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, and its sick to disappear and just blow away. We must dissent from a government that has left its young without jobs, education or hope. We must dissent from the poverty of vision and the absence of moral leadership. We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better."</p><p>Read it: <a href="https://genius.com/Thurgood-marshall-the-liberty-medal-acceptance-speech-annotated" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">genius.com/Thurgood-marshall-t</span><span class="invisible">he-liberty-medal-acceptance-speech-annotated</span></a></p><p>Watch it (an excerpt): <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_upIvuQy_AU" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=_upIvuQy_A</span><span class="invisible">U</span></a></p>
Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:<p>On this day in 1967 Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first Black supreme court justice in American history. He was a civil rights lawyer and activist who was widely respected by the legal and activist communities. Our current justices could learn a lot from Thurgood’s 27 years in SCOTUS.</p><p>More:<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgood_Marshall" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgood</span><span class="invisible">_Marshall</span></a></p><p>(Photo: CC, Yoichi Okamoto)</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>America</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ThurgoodMarshall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThurgoodMarshall</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a></p>
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