She was the keynote speaker at the 60th anniversary of the Ku Klux Klan bombing that killed four young girls at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala.
“We cannot forget because we cannot learn from past mistakes we do not know exist.”
“I come with the understanding that I did not reach these professional heights on my own, that people of all races, people of courage and conviction cleared the path for me in the wake of the horrible tragedy that snuffed out the brief lives of those four little girls inside this sacred space,” she said. “I’ve come to Alabama with a heart filled with gratitude, for unlike those four little girls, I have lived, entrusted with the sole responsibility of serving our great nation.”
Soaring and beautiful rhetoric that gave me chills.
Sadly, those that need to hear this the most are those most unlikely the hear the message.
To me, she comes off as the most impressive justice on the court. Her opinions so far have been informed by rigorous and accurate history, and convey a sharpness and clarity of purpose that cuts through so much bullshit. She absolutely wrecks the arguments of her morally bankrupt counterparts on the court.
Her questions at oral argument are incisive and expose dishonest crap that claimants try to pull. And she manages to do all of it with a beautiful command of language and rhetoric. I’m cynical and generally untrustworthy of most folks in positions like hers, but damn if she isn’t inspiring and incredibly good at her job. I only wish she wasn’t going to be stuck in the minority and at the whims of some genuinely awful people, for the foreseeable future.
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