Shame as it ever was

“In 1984, Tracey Meares had the highest grade-point average in her class and was prepared to be her class' valedictorian. It was of particular significance to her because she would be the first Black person to claim the title in Springfield High School's history.

But the title was denied to Meares, leaving a Springfield documentary filmmaker decades later to piece together a story of systemic racism. The film, No Title for Tracey, premiers April 16 at the Hoogland Center for the Arts.

Today, Meares is a professor at Yale Law School. She is the first Black woman to hold a tenured professorship there.”

President Biden has nominated a Black woman to the SCOTUS. The Senate GOP is already ginning up a phony attack on her as sympathetic to child pornographers. It doesn’t have to be true or even make sense. But in America, if you are a Black person of achievement—and especially a female Black person of achievement—you must be blocked at all costs. Same as it ever was.

Feh

https://www.illinoistimes.com/springfield/the-black-valedictorian-who-never-received-the-title/Content?oid=14870739&fbclid=IwAR1AOKIo-h1lcIUqTGEm1I7lEcUZD1-hkZIlYHMQNmPiIolt6LOOUXPhG1o