Crediting Trump for putting three conservative judges on the Supreme Court, is like giving Neil Armstrong the credit for putting a man on the moon,.
Wernher von Braun, the German engineer who designed Hitler's V-1 rockets, came to the U.S. at the end of World War II and built the Saturn V rocket that put America on the moon. Likewise, Senate Leader Mitch McConnell engineered the "Justice Putsch" by stealing a judge from President Obama, and another from Biden, and giving them both to Trump. The middle justice happened to be ripe for the picking, and President Trump filled the three vacancies like any other good Republican would have done given the same bounty.
McConnell had dared to refuse Obama's pick, Merrick Garland, a judicial hearing, claiming it was too close to the 2016 presidential election, despite that election being over a year away. Five years later, he reversed his shady reasoning, and quickly hand over to Trump the seat left vacant by the death of /Ruth Bader Ginsburg only months before Trump's term ended in 2020. It was political hardball, and Mitch had executed a once-in-a-lifetime triple play.
That is how Roe v. Wade was overturned, and Affirmative Action, and Student Loan Forgiveness, etc., etc. President Trump ran the bell, but plaudits, such as they are, go to Mitch McConnell's evil genius.
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Puck Up!
Tennessee State University, a Historically Black College (HBCU), will be the first of its kind to start a hockey program. Good. African-American men cannot sing, cannot fight, and cannot play baseball anymore. Why not try hockey.
If women can go to-to-toe in the octagon, pole vault in the Olympics, and throw hammers, the brothers ought to be able to strap on skates, and take it to the ice. Puck up!
1 comment:
Yo Man, my mind be cross-circuiting when digging into the political dynamics of a democracy. The words 'justice' and 'putsch' together trigger my cross-eye! I just resolve the whole democracy thang to be like a tasty fruit which has a seed that is poisonous - DON'T SWALLOW THE SEED!!...
...and Brothers lacing up the ice skate to 'Puck (back) up!' again!! What more is there to prove after the CHL (Colored Hockey League slapped sticks from 1895 - 1930, and racked stats to make it in the BIS - Black Ice Hockey and Sports Hall of Fame Society)?...OR, take your best guess as to why the Brothers had to go north of the border to play HOCKEY!?!! This piece seems like a segway to break more of the ice off the 'American Blackness' subject in general. I think too much emphasis is placed on the African part of identity in the evolution of Blacks born and raised in the Americas. What say you? Keep Bangin' Cuz!
Tico
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