The end result was that the State of North Carolina was required to admit black students to its whites-only law school, years before SCOTUS's Brown v Board of Education ruling
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The end result was that the State of North Carolina was required to admit black students to its whites-only law school, years before SCOTUS's Brown v Board of Education ruling
The Fourth Circuit's opinion in McKissick details the disparate treatment of the NCCU School of Law compared to its whites-only counterpart at UNC Chapel Hill Fewer faculty, less experienced. Fewer courses. The Law Library furnished with outdated books handed down from the whites-only school.
You'll undoubtedly be shocked (shocked!) that the "but equal" part was missing, of course So Sweatt v Painter (SCOTUS) happened in Texas in 1950 Then McKissick v Carmichael (4th Circ) happened in NC in 1951 Then Brown v Board happened in 1954 McKissick opinion: law.justia.com/cases/federa...
With a degree of alacrity usually reserved for natural disasters and other emergencies, the North Carolina General Assembly hauled ass on writing + debating + adopting a bill to create a "separate but equal" law school in 1939 It passed on March 1st, just 2.5 months post-Gaines
You'll notice that opinion was released in December 1938 Holding that if a state didn't provide a law school for blacks, it would have to admit blacks to its whites-only law schools At the time, North Carolina only had a whites-only law school, at UNC Chapel Hill So...
The case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court of the United States Where SCOTUS ruled 6-2 that Gaines's rights had been violated, because Missouri had already set a precedent of providing separate but equal educational facilities Court opinion here: supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...
Missouri's lawyers were smart enough to know they had a big problem with that lawsuit So they offered to pay 100% of Gaines's enrollment costs at literally any other law school in any adjacent state, just not Missouri Gaines told them to get rekt
Lloyd Gaines wanted to go to law school at the University of Missouri The UM law school was whites only, so it told Gaines to politely go f*ck himself Gaines filed suit, arguing that his Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated b/c Missouri didn't have a law school for blacks
The unequal treatment should have been illegal But judges have unique talents for ignoring the obvious in the name hewing to the precedents they like 🙃 So this was nationwide practice for decades And along comes the Supreme Court case Missouri ex rel Gaines v Canada
(Those bathrooms later got repurposed into the women's bathrooms, so even after time required limiting the racism, the misogyny was still good to go)
In practice, the facilities were never actually equal Anything the Government intended for black folk was intentionally underfunded and left to decay, so long as the courts would go along with it You could see it in the NC General Assembly, where the "colored" bathrooms are tiny af
You might recall from your history classes that "separate but equal" was the legal mantra for the apartheid system the US had throughout the Jim Crow era If a govt provided separate facilities of equal quality for whites and non-whites, no violation of the 14th Amendment's "equal protection" clause
For context, let me drop some history about the North Carolina Central University School of Law Because the history makes it easy to understand why this is happening
Saw this reposted by a number of people who do not understand 1) that "AI" can mean a whole host of things, including a bunch of things you had no objection to 5 years ago, and 2) Bayes rule
Unsurprising, but still total clown shit
Nothing quippy yet. The Department of Education already demanded they scrub all references to race from their website – even though NCCU was solely founded, 100% entirely, to be "separate but equal" so UNC could stay segregated All of the people in this administration need to be guillotined
They like Trump and are trying to help him
Birth rates are lowering *literally everywhere.* The only countries which keep growing in power will be the ones which continue to grow, and without immigration that will not be “the West.”
Only sort of joking
Preemptively pardoning Rudy Giuliani for whatever crimes he did, giving him a medal, and using it all as a pretext to invade New York
Silver couldn't even spell it right with the asterisk Bluekay Bluekey Bluekiy Bluekoy Bluekuy Blueksy None of them work
I suppose the answer may depend on where one went to college 😂
They won their division in 2015 and 2022, and have been to a bowl game 14 of the last 17 seasons bsky.app/profile/amaz...
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The Trump administration used Benny Johnson's claims that his house was "burned to the ground" and that "people were murdered in my front yard" to justify its federal takeover of DC. @kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
Mike Pence must be ruing the fact that he could have soon been President if Trump hadn’t tried to have him killed first.
Is TCU really good or is UNCCH really bad? 🏈
I don’t want to jinx things but this could be worth getting the HOA warnings.
What a hellish way to waste your one precious life.
This is outstanding
Hanania and Richard Spencer being to the left of the median Republican member of Congress is actually quite funny.
I’m sorry, I know a lot of us don’t like President Trump but I think they could dispose of his cremated remains in a more respectful manner.
School closures inconvenience me (40yr old main character of the universe that now has to deal with the kids I hate), dead people in a freezer truck so not
That we still talk about this but never about all the people who fucking died makes me insane.
I honestly cannot believe we are still arguing about school closures during COVID, it’s as over as it’s ever going to be and we gain literally nothing by still talking about it
Trying to understand the physics of how Putin does it with disloyal aides
So there’s a thing I’ve noticed repeatedly from people who are still on X, The Everything App - they’re constantly making weird accusations about Bluesky that don’t make any sense if you’re on here, and I think it’s a sign they’re deeply insecure about posting to X, The Everything App.
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Honestly, I think a lot of politicians on both sides of the Atlantic got psyoped into viewing salt of the earth bigots as more authentic and worthy than them and thinking therefore they must ritually cleanse their sin of education by rolling in the gutter.
hell i wish brands would post garment dimensions rather than vague sizing charts
Promises made. Promises kept.
In the grand scheme of manifesting good things for our country, this thread is fun.
Also, when I joined there were ~250K accounts. They're at ~4M DAU and 38M accounts two years later? Seems like decent growth to me 🤷♂️
…you mean foreshadowing?????
Government has absorbed, correctly, that there is a conscious project to roll back a half century of making Englishness and Britishness identities based on more than ethnicity, but has no plan beyond going 'I too like flags' to defend it.
dawg what are we doing here
The pair I just lost retails for $185 so that rationale did not help me as much as I wish it did 😩😩😩 bsky.app/profile/jaso...
Operation Warp Speed was a good thing. It is, in my opinion, the best thing the Trump administration did. Developing a working vaccine in such a short amount of time was and is genuinely amazing.
From the U.S., Kier Starmer really does come across as a perfect example of you cannot successfully try to ape reactionary conservative politics in the long term. Labour got a single win and Starmer proceeded to drive the party into its worst polling in generations by courting the right.
The annoying part is I distinctly remember having my glasses when we left the bar. I had them dangling from my shirt collar, and moved them to my pocket b/c I didn't want to crush them giving my friend a hug goodbye Didn't notice they were MIA until this AM heading to airport @hearsay.bsky.social
Only do it by accident, b/c it roughly coincides with when the Mrs became an eye doctor and started asking why I kept getting ugly+cheap $5 suns I'm like "anything fancier will be a waste of money b/c I lose them" She tried to prove my wrong, got me nice ones She failed bsky.app/profile/hear...
I don’t normally ask to hear from the president but it’d be nice to see if he can still complete a sentence
Kevin he couldn't complete a sentence before he got elected, it's just a string of run-ons trailing off into non sequiturs
Somehow lost my sunglasses 😩 This will be at least the 10th pair either lost or broken since law school
Honestly that would have been preferable, because it suggests the person at least read the post! But responding to a post about "when Dems take over" with "Dems can't do any of this without taking over" just reflects truly low effort 😔 bsky.app/profile/time...
End of Week 66, back on Saturday. Tried very hard to eat normally in LA, and also hit my cardio targets Still spiking a bit anyway 🤪
That's assuming they actually gerrymander optimally, but I doubt they're even going to gerrymander *competently*. A big problem they have is that in an environment like this they actually need to be *sacrificing* a few vulnerable Republicans to shore up the rest. They're getting greedy instead.
Because, but their definition of “tyranny,” it isn’t tyrannical. Cowie’s Freedom’s Dominion should be one of those everyone-must-read books. To some ppl, freedom = freedom FROM oppression. For others (like MAGA), freedom = freedom TO oppress. There’s nothing hypocritical here.
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Great first trip for sure, saw quite a bit more than thought I'd have time to see! bsky.app/profile/city...
👴🏼: "I like waffles." 👤: "Please tell me you understand that uncooked waffles are not edible. Please tell me you understand this. Please." Post less. Read more.
You see the quote-skeet you replied to? Then the screenshot that's being quoted in that quote-skeet? Then the first clause in that screenshot? bsky.app/profile/beau...
It was good! My only regret is I really wanted the spicy miso, but talked myself out of it b/c I have a tendency to splatter droplets on my shirt even when using my napkin as a bib and didn't want red-colored splatter -- so I talked myself into the tonkatsu instead 🤦♂️
Lengthy list, you'll have to scroll the thread 😆
A reminder that the trial record in this case is so incredible that you would not believe me if you didn’t simply read it yourself.
Half a decade later, it has come to this. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Had I realized it was so close by, I wouldn't have eaten so much at lunch 😩
First solo trip I've taken where I can confidently say I've squeezed as much as I possibly could into the time I had 🥰 Early flight out of LAX in the AM so heading to bed forthwith *THANK YOU* to all of y'all who shared recs on things to see in Los Angeles! More to do next time
I'd share the photo but time has not been flattering to either of our physiques 🤪
Did the obligatory tourist thing and rode that 😂 Back to the hotel to pack, then got dinner and drinks with one of my good friends from undergrad who I hadn't seen in 15 years 🤯 (who is doing *amazing* stuff in Hollywood too!) We then recreated a photo we took at my college graduation in 2009 👴🏼
Decided to walk back from lunch, but took a slightly different path than Friday Totally by accident, passed the Bradbury Building that was on the to-do list (but they were closed), then realized it was next to Grand Central Market so went through there, just to exit and see the Angels Flight
Started today at the La Brea Tar Pits, which was a ton of fun 🦴🦣🤓 ...Then went to LACMA since I was right there... ...Then went to the Academy Museum since I was right there 🤪 Then to Little Tokyo for late lunch at Daikokuya
Narrator: the city has lost ~300k people since COVID. Also pretty much everyone should be welcome in the city. That’s the whole point.
Antifa Supersoldiers finally got to America's Mayor! 😱
No, making a joke bsky.app/profile/isaa...
Pure fucking evil. Everyone involved in this shit needs to be held accountable.
Not sure whose fault it is primarily that most people don't seem to know that the president is basically a manager whose job is to carry out the will of Congress, and not The Country's Boss
the story is not just "Jon Gruden wrote emails about how Black people are stupid," it's "Jon Gruden wrote emails about how Black people are stupid, a belief he backed up by refusing to play Black QBs/hire Black coordinators for 15 years"
Bumping what I wrote the night he quit the Raiders Jon Gruden's emails made clear he's a racist, sexist, homophobe. That doesn't just make him a bad person (thought it obviously does!), it makes him a bad football coach, because you need to work with Black people, gay people, and women to win
Saw Toxic Avenger on Friday, agree with this assessment
Actual thing, back when imprisonment for debt was still common. See e.g. Beers v Haughton, 34 US (9 Pet.) 329 (1835) (This was back when half the SCOTUS ops were in Latin and Olde English so I can't claim to fully understand it) bsky.app/profile/conn...
Alexis de Tocqueville's best-known work was his classic study "Democracy in America," analyzing our living standards and system of government during his travels here He noted America's cash bail system was aristocratic horseshit way back in *1835* 190 years ago:
Tough to articulate in words how much I despise these people, and wish every possible negative consequence upon them 🎁🔗: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...
(He's not even that much older than me!)
Spent the afternoon/evening with one of my friends and mentors from work, who's retiring and emigrating. We had a small-but-festive retirement celebration And y'all I am *so* tired 😂 I pray to have as much energy as he does when I'm his age
Limited time here, gotta make the most of it! bsky.app/profile/not-...
Stephen Manning, this guy’s lawyer, is one of the best in the country. It’s very good news that he’s taken this case.
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
That he's spent all his time obsessed with this yet seems not to be aware of anything at the CDC suggests his very limited capacity is being very carefully managed by his eunuchs and concubine.
