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White women: Pay Attention
A few of us are here in DC protesting the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. 21 were arrested today including me.
But there are many white women here in support of Amy Coney Barrett, both inside the Senate and on the street. Financed by Charles Koch, Barrett supporters boarded busses to DC, many of them maskless, despite the airborne coronavirus that has killed 215,000+ Americans and infected nearly 8,000,000. They outnumber us at least 10–1.
Amy Coney Barrett, 48, is about to be the third extremist Supreme Court Justice nominated by a President who lost the popular vote, forming a 6–3 hard Conservative majority.
She, who has benefitted throughout her life from the protections against discrimination Black people gave their lives for, is now going to dismantle those very protections, and set us all back…
