Root the Hate out of the System
“I think it’s a dastardly thing. We’ve got our first African-American female chief justice. And we haven’t taken resources away from others that served this position and served this state. To take them away now, it just seems morally wrong,” Paul Lowe, a Winston-Salem Democrat. recently stated (notably without cursing) in response to NC Republicans' likely-to-pass budget, which cuts 1/2 of the staff of the first African American female chief justice on the NC Supreme Court (appointed February 2019).
Despite a multi-million-dollar budget surplus this year, NC Senate Republicans have eliminated funding for three of the six staffers who work for the state’s top judge. If this happens, she would be the only appellate judge in the state with just one law clerk, according to Floyd McKissick (D, Durham). Meanwhile, the budget funds six new federal prosecutors around the state.
Coincidence? I think NOT!
"Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system!" ~Monty Python and the Holy Grail
I was raised Republican. Seriously. Rush Limbaugh was considered news in my hometown and was played regularly in area restaurants. There was no NPR. I am all for fiscal conservatism, but not at the expense of digity and morality. I don't know whether to be horrified by the absolute lack of transparency in NC State Republicans' continued determination to persecute African Americans; or whether to be grateful that these wolves have removed all trappings of disguise so that we have a no-excuse opportunity to root this hate out of our system.
We can march all we want. What we need to do is VOTE and get others to do so. And if there's no one we want to vote for, then we need to RUN, and if we don't/can't run, we need to FIND SOMEONE ELSE who will.
In the meantime, THANK YOU, Cheri Beasley, for pressing on despite the immense challenges. You are my hero!
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North Carolina Chief Justice Cheri Beasley.
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