#plessyvferguson — Public Fediverse posts
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The One-Way Drop: Why a Drop of White Blood Never Made Anyone White
American race law rests on a piece of arithmetic no mathematician would sign: one drop of Black blood makes a person Black, and a flood of white blood makes nobody white. The formula runs in a single direction, and it has run that way for more than three centuries. Ask why the obverse rule never existed, why no statute, no census, no courtroom ever held that a drop of white blood confers whiteness, and you have asked the question that unlocks the whole machinery, because a rule that only works one way was never measuring what it claimed to measure. […] -
On this day in 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal". The decision legitimized the many state laws re-establishing racial segregation that had been passed in the American South after the end of the Reconstruction Era (1865–1877).
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I was not previously aware of Justice Harlan "The Great Dissenter" 's prescient dissent on Plessy: "the judgement this day rendered, will, in time, prove to be quite as pernicious as the decision made by this tribunal in the Dred Scott Case" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Marshall_Harlan #JohnMarshallHarlan #DredScott #PlessyVFerguson
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I missed this a few years ago. I regularly lecture about Homer Plessy and his work in 1892 to fight racial segregation in the American South. His work backfired when the Supreme Court immortalized him with their disastrous Plessy v Ferguson decision enshrining racial segregation as constitutional. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59888947 #segregation #CivilRights #JimCrow #PlessyVFerguson #HomerPlessy #SCOTUS
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On this day in 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal". The decision legitimized the many state laws re-establishing racial segregation that had been passed in the American South after the end of the Reconstruction Era (1865–1877).
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@lisagetspolitik
This is SCOTUS right now, and also a whole lot of SCOTUS's from yesteryear.#DredScott
#Korematsu
#PlessyvFerguson
#BuckvBell
#BushvGore
#CitizensUnited
#BowersvHardwickThere are many, many more but I just got tired of typing hashtags. See Legacy Museum, Montgomery, Ala., for a more complete list of crap decisions
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The #US #SupremeCourt Has Kicked the Door Wide Open to #JimCrow–Style #Bigotry
The court’s #conservatives used a #case literally based on a #homophobe’s #fantasies to blow a huge hole in our #antidiscrimination #laws and revive the spirit of #PlessyVFerguson.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/supreme-court-303-creative-decision-mystal/
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I'm enjoying the addition of the history segment at the start.
"We have an important history entry for today. On this day in 1954 #SCOTUS held, in Brown v. Board of Education, that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. The case overturned the previous doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ established by Plessy v. Ferguson. … History segregation is, ancient history it is not. “
#lawfedi #law @law #brownvboardofed #plessyvferguson #podcast
https://www.minimumcomp.com/p/517-irs-public-e-file-judicial-fitness