The first line of LBJ's remarkable speech introducing Voting Rights Act before Congress, 52 years ago today https://t.co/vvXIAYxR7V pic.twitter.com/ZcQhBPXo4J
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) March 16, 2017
There’s been lots of change for the better just in my lifetime — too much for the Angry White Men fronting the Republican party right now.
I keep reminding myself, our job is to resist going backward, so that the rising generation will never have to be grateful for a world where the N-word is considered more socially toxic than the F-word, and phrases like ‘sexual harassment’ or ‘domestic violence’ aren’t odd jargon beyond the understanding of all but a few ivory-tower academics…
On RBG's 84th bday let us celebrate her & also consider how crazy it is that millions of women's bodily autonomy relies on one woman's body pic.twitter.com/br5NL2ABOA
— laura olin (@lauraolin) March 15, 2017
Late Night Open Thread: We’ve Made Progress, Despite EverythingPost + Comments (91)