Monday, September 18, 2023. Annette’s News Roundup.
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Final issue of the Roundup during my high holiday hiatus, 2023.
On Friday, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Ketanji Jackson Brown spoke at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama to commemorate the death of 4 African American girls as a result of the Ku Klux Klan bombing which occurred there 60 years ago on September 15th, 1963.
Justice Brown spoke about the importance of history in helping us move forward as a nation.
If you have 27 minutes, I urge you to listen to her words and plea for history as a necessary support for Democracy.
Here is the video.
(It is easy to ignore any ads that appear during Justice Brown’s remarks by letting the ad play a few seconds until the words Skip Ad appear. Then you know what to do).
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Take that, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and others in the GOP, who want to erase the history of slavery, injustice and racist violence in America.
The Justice never mentions her opponents but we know who she is answering.
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Words from Justice Ketanji Jackson Brown at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 2023.
“If we’re going to move forward as a nation, we cannot allow concerns about discomfort to displace knowledge, truth or history.
It is certainly the case that parts of this country’s story can be hard to think about. I know that atrocities like the one we are memorializing today are difficult to remember, and re-live, but I also know that it is dangerous to forget them. We cannot forget, because the uncomfortable lessons are often the ones that teach us the most about ourselves.”
“We have to own even the darkest parts of our past, understand them, and vow never to repeat them.”
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See you tomorrow with a full, catch-up issue of the Roundup.
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