In November of 2007, the Connecticut Law Review had a symposium commemorating the 20th anniversary of Professor Charles Lawrence’s trailblazing work “The Id, the Ego, and the Equal Protection Clause: Reckoning with Unconscious Racism.” This article was a brilliant mashup of jurisprudence and psychology. The Equal Justice Society has used its analysis in our effortsContinueContinue reading “This Week in White Supremacy: Week 21”
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This Week in White Supremacy: Week 20
A new historical marker will “tell the whole story” about Nathan Bedford Forrest and the antebellum slave trade in Memphis. Commercial Appeal Black children will be the victims of armed teachers. Time During a four-day operation last week, federal officials said they arrested 232 undocumented immigrants in a Northern California sweep aimed at countering localContinueContinue reading “This Week in White Supremacy: Week 20”
How to Get Away With Murder: Olivia Pope, Annalise Keating, and the Equal Protection Clause
Last Friday was a trying day. My friend Bob Demmons, one of the plaintiffs in the SF Fire Department desegregation case from the 1980s and former Chief of the SFFD, buried his 50-year-old son that day. The funeral was beyond sad. As we know, burying one’s child is not the natural order of life. ItContinueContinue reading “How to Get Away With Murder: Olivia Pope, Annalise Keating, and the Equal Protection Clause”