Worried about SCOTUS nominee Neil Gorsuch? Remember, movements don’t begin and end at the Supreme Court steps

The United States Supreme Court once wrote: “The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own times.”

Slaves saw great injustice in their own time.  Women, Native Americans, African Americans, the LGBTQ community – all have and are still experiencing great injustice in their own times.

Perhaps it would have been more accurate if the Court had instead written that those who hold power may be unwilling to see injustice in their own time because it does not serve their interests.

In our own time, today, Americans – or we should say, those Americans who are willing – are seeing injustice unfold before their eyes.People are gathering in the streets. They are organizing to protest actions of the new administration, including an immigration ban stripping rights of human beings based on ethnicity and religion, threatened cuts in women’s health care provided by Planned Parenthood, and the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline through ancestral Sioux tribal lands. …

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