'The special venom and bigotry behind such slurs lobbed at women of color are unmistakable as history teaches us.' For michelebgoodwin, that's why Ms. Mary Hamilton’s story came to mind watching AOC's floor speech this week.
, of fire hoses and dogs on children, women and men. Children as young as seven and eight hauled off in patrol wagons for peaceful demonstrations pleading equality in schooling.As a Freedom Rider, Mary Hamilton was arrested, jailed with men, subjected to nonconsensual vaginal exams, beaten and verbally abused—yet she continued her work across Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama, registering Black people to vote.
The NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, which took on the litigation, argued the long history of demeaning Black women by refusing to acknowledge their full names and accord them the formal honorifics used with white women in court, was a form of racial discrimination, reflecting a longstanding racial caste system, and as such violated Ms. Hamilton’s constitutional rights. They won.
This week, in a rambling response, Rep. Yoho offered a meandering speech about his passions, his wife, his daughters and the pain of growing up poor. As he explained to the public “I cannot apologize for my passion.” She deserved better. Honestly, the girls and women of our nation deserve better. We all deserve better—because such misogyny harms men and boys too, creating bullies in them who lack the capacity to be introspective and the courage to be accountable.
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