"My faith in the Constitution is Whole ..."
The
most amazing and moving aspect of this to me has always been less what
she says and more who she is to say such a thing. This is an
African-American woman born in extreme poverty who clawed her way into
law school and becoming the first African-American woman in the Texas
Senate. She tolerate vicious, profane attacks on her personally but
never backed down or sank to their level.
She
sat as a legislator surrounded by the descendants of the slavers who
tortured and murdered her ancestors, her people. Some of her
colleagues, especially in Texas, had probably participated in lynchings
of black people, and definitely participated in Jim Crow-era abuse and
discrimination.
Yet she
rose above it all to begin impeachment hearings on Nixon by declaring her faith in the very document that allowed
and justified that slavery, that torture, that discrimination.
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