Monday, January 7, 2019

"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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