Now that sticking up for the underdog is a bad thing...
With the truly repulsive words from the Republicans about Thurgood Marshall at Kagan's hearings, I got to thinking about Senator Bird. Bird had such a checkered past, a member of the KKK, he voted against Marshall's appointment to the Supreme Court. But Bird had the ability to grow, and change, and question himself unlike the Republican thugs who aren't fit to serve the same country as Marshall.
And it was Senator Bird that during Clarence Hill's hearings that got up and said:
"I believe Anita Hill. I believe what she said. I watched her on that screen intensely and I replayed, as I have already said, her appearance and her statement. I did not see on that face the knotted brow of satanic revenge. I did not see a face that was contorted with hate. I did not hear a voice that was tremulous with passion.
I saw the face of a woman, one of 13 in a family of Southern blacks who grew up on the farm and who belonged to the church, who belongs to the church today and who was evidently reared by religious parents. . . . I saw an individual who did not flinch, who showed no nervousness, who spoke calmly throughout, dispassionately and who answered difficult questions."
So why are people like Bird dying and Jeff Sessions being elected to hold any office in this land?
And it was Senator Bird that during Clarence Hill's hearings that got up and said:
"I believe Anita Hill. I believe what she said. I watched her on that screen intensely and I replayed, as I have already said, her appearance and her statement. I did not see on that face the knotted brow of satanic revenge. I did not see a face that was contorted with hate. I did not hear a voice that was tremulous with passion.
I saw the face of a woman, one of 13 in a family of Southern blacks who grew up on the farm and who belonged to the church, who belongs to the church today and who was evidently reared by religious parents. . . . I saw an individual who did not flinch, who showed no nervousness, who spoke calmly throughout, dispassionately and who answered difficult questions."
So why are people like Bird dying and Jeff Sessions being elected to hold any office in this land?