Malik shared his thoughts on the recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions.
Today we watched what is just the start of this country’s regression. The second the supreme court made that Dobbs decision, I was petrified, and we all should be. Martin said an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere and that couldn’t be truer today, with our super conservative supreme court stacked as is, we see how slowly but surely the supreme court is regressing america.
Today we watched the last of their term decisions the striking down of affirmative action just a week after Juneteenth, this landmark day coopted by the government feigning altruism, as well as the affirming of the fact that lgbtq people can be discriminated against in the case of a web designer not wanting to make websites for lgbtq couples. The implications of all this is so profound, this open the flood gates to the possibility of discrimination based of interracial relationships taking us back to a time in america were states like Oregon outlawed interracial relationships, not just between blacks and whites, but natives and Black’s. This decision is one made with the express intent of rolling back equal protections and turning back the clock in this country. This court has displayed not just a bias, but displayed that they cannot make real legal decisions as per their own job. The repeal of affirmative action with Clarence Thomas daring to use the fact that we in this age haven’t gone through the Jim Crow era, as if to say we are not affected, and use that as his merit for the repeal, while saying nothing about the policy in place for students who had parents and grandparents in a university. We don’t get that opportunity afforded to us, we didn’t have grandparents part of the alumni of any given university because our people were subjected to things like the Jim crow era. So how dare he! — and furthermore with the express knowledge that he himself BENEFITTED from affirmative action — how dare he elect to say we don’t get to, one week after the supposed countries recognition of our long term oppression.
Today I honestly couldn’t be more disgusted with this country, I see the direction we’re headed and most of us have seen it for years, but it gives me Handmaids Tale vibes, where people see but don’t want to see and then when its time to rise up, it’s already too late. This supreme court has overstepped the duty that is to interpret the law and now impart their own conservative morals in their overreaching decision. This is only one more reason these lifetime appointments are asinine. I’m ashamed and infuriated, and if we don’t stand up against this, if we let these decisions like Dobbs, affirmative action, the allowed discrimination of a protected class of people, fall on deaf ears, we WILL wake up one day in that dystopia we dread and it will be our fault, all of us, we let it happen. We need to see major corporations and people and political figures shouting and proclaiming from every platform the gravity and weight of this and they need to denounce and decry these justices and take the time to rally. Because once it’s too late, it’s too late. I’ll be damned if this turns to Gilead, I’ll give up my life a thousands times over in defense of freedom and equality before I see that.