I think something also people especially don't want to grapple with is RBG's personal extremely bad positions on race and black people especially, in policy, rulings, and her personal life. People joke about it but its literally true; she refused to hire black staff and clerks, having exactly one black law clerk out of hundreds in her mu…
I think something also people especially don't want to grapple with is RBG's personal extremely bad positions on race and black people especially, in policy, rulings, and her personal life. People joke about it but its literally true; she refused to hire black staff and clerks, having exactly one black law clerk out of hundreds in her multiple decades long tenure. Something I muse about is how much her repeated refusal to retire at obviously good moments (as those moments became worse and worse and the future looked grimmer) was driven by not wanting a black man to name her successor.
I think something also people especially don't want to grapple with is RBG's personal extremely bad positions on race and black people especially, in policy, rulings, and her personal life. People joke about it but its literally true; she refused to hire black staff and clerks, having exactly one black law clerk out of hundreds in her multiple decades long tenure. Something I muse about is how much her repeated refusal to retire at obviously good moments (as those moments became worse and worse and the future looked grimmer) was driven by not wanting a black man to name her successor.