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In this podcast, Jamil Ellis talks with his father, retired Federal Magistrate Judge Ronald Ellis, about the historical role of law in shaping the societal structures which act as barriers to attaining the American dream. They discuss why “legal” is not a synonym for “moral” and why law, a prime actor in creating the problems, can and should be a part of the solution. Join them as they talk about wealth, voting, education, criminal justice and other topics which divide the nation.

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Latest Episodes:

Claudine Gay: The Latest Victim in the Debate over DEI, Affirmative Action, and Meritocracy Jan 08, 2024

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In this episode, the hosts discuss the controversy concerning the Resignation of Harvard president Claudine Gay.Is Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion undermining merit or does it address a history of Discrimination, Exclusion, and Inequality.

Claudine Gay's Resignation

The Claudine Gay Debacle Was Never about Merit

Claudine Gay and the Limits of Social Engineering at Harvard

Biden to Appeal to Black Voters in Campaign Trip to Charleston, SC

From Jamestown to Charlottesville: Virginia and America's racial divide Dec 22, 2023

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In this episode, the hosts discuss the leading role that Virginia has played in the racial divide in America's history. Home to the Founding Fathers and Capital of the Confederacy, the state has been the crucible of the ideals which built this country and the ideas which would tear it apart.

Washington, DC History

https://washington.org/DC-information/washington-dc-history

Virginia 1619

https://time.com/5653369/august-1619-jamestown-history/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/02/06/virginia-is-birthplace-american-slavery-segregation-it-still-cant-escape-that-legacy/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Virginia_political_crisis.

https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/873

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/when-white-supremacy-came-to-virginia/

https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/an-act-concerning-servants-and-slaves-1705/

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/10-facts-founding-fathers

https://www.monticello.org/exhibits-events/livestreams-videos-and-podcasts/enslaved-on-grounds-slavery-at-the-university-of-virginia/#:~:text=From%20Thomas%20Jefferson's%20founding%20of,nation's%20most%20prestigious%20public%20universities

Florida Episode - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/black-history-never-equal-never-protected-first-stop/id1485019282?i=1000623777868

Indiana Episode - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/black-history-never-equal-never-protected-up-north/id1485019282?i=1000627180421

Holding the Line: Sandra Day O'Connor's legacy of bringing stability to the Supreme Court by protecting its established precedents. Dec 06, 2023

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In this episode, the hosts discuss Justice O'Connor's role as the "swing vote" as the Court addressed major fault lines in our society on issues such as abortion, affirmative action, and gender equality.

Planned Parenthood v. Casey

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/505/833/

Grutter v. Bollinger

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/539/306/

Black History: Never Equal; Never Protected: Up North to Indiana Sep 08, 2023

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In this episode, the hosts continue examining how specific states have addressed racial equality, Black history, and White Supremacy. In this episode, they travel outside the Deep South, and focus on the state of Indiana – Klan Capital and home of Sundown Towns.

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Black History: Never Equal; Never Protected - First Stop: Florida Aug 08, 2023

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In this episode, the hosts begin a series of episodes examining how specific states have addressed the racial equality, Black history, and White Supremacy. First stop: Florida.

LINKS IN THIS EPISODE

Smithsonian Magazine

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/one-hundred-years-ago-four-day-race-riot-engulfed-washington-dc-180972666/

Florida Academic Standards 2023

https://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/20653/urlt/6-4.pdf

Ron DeSantis and the State Where History Goes to Die https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/28/opinion/desantis-slavery-florida-curriculum-history.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Removing Relics of "The Lost Cause" | On the Media | WNYC Studios

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/removing-relics-lost-cause-on-the-media

Lost Cause

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy

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Colorblind Remedies for Color-Conscious Wrongs Jul 04, 2023

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Photo Credit : Encyclyopedia Britanica

In this program, the hosts discuss the Supreme Court's decision to forbid race-conscious affirmative action approaches to achieve diversity n higher education. The discussion contrasts Justice Roberts' pronouncement that decisions should be color-blind with Justice Jackson's reminder that the country has been far from colorblind and the effects are not just historical but real in the present because of the intergenerational transmission of inequality. Moreover, the "self-evident" truth that all are created equal has not been applicable to Black Americans.

Ketanji Jackson Brown's dissenting opinion

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Affirmative Action - How we got to now

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The Hands That Rock The Cradle: Donald Trump, the Supreme Court, and the Federalist Society.

Whose Constitution is it, Anyway?: Originalism vs. The Living Constitution

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Not in Our Stars, but in Ourselves: How The Supreme Court Undermined Its Own Reputation May 10, 2023

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Image Credit: Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States

In this episode, the hosts discuss the Roberts Court's failure to adhere to precedent and the effect this is having on the public's confidence in the Supreme Court. Respect for precedents and the application of the principle of stare desisis provide constancy and comfort and avoids the appearance that the Court is swayed by political consideration. Simple assertions that a prior decision was wrongly decided are inadequate to justify undermining the expectations of parties before the Court and the public at large.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/28/us/alito-supreme-court-abortion-leak.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/28/alito-leaker-dobbs-wsj/

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The Fire This Time: Black History Surviving in the Time of Modern-Day Book Banning Feb 10, 2023

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Photo credit: Afro.com EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode, the hosts discuss Black History and the historical use of book burning, book banning, and other methods to suppress inconvenient truths. False narratives flourish when voices remain silent are have been removed from the discussion.

To download the transcript, CLICK HERE

A FEW KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE

Denying Black people education and banning books is part of historical pattern to control access to information to control the narrative
This practice of banning and burning books has been used throughout history by people in power wishing to keep power
ChatGPT disagress with the governor of Florida on the educational value of AP African American History

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Current effort to ban books

https://afro.com/10-banned-books-that-are-crucial-to-black-culture/

These 176 Books Were Banned in Duval County, Florida - PEN America

Ruby Bridges speaks out on book bans: 'Surely we are better than this' (yahoo.com)

Why Book Ban Efforts Are Spreading Across the U.S. - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/social-sciences-and-law/social-reformers/nat-turner

https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/turners-revolt-nat-1831/

Reconquista

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/spain-announces-it-will-expel-all-jews

https://bennorton.com/the-other-1492/

The Politics of education and text books

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/12/us/texas-vs-california-history-textbooks.html

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Martin Luther King - Waiting on His Dream

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Martin Luther King: Waiting on His Dream Jan 16, 2023

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EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode, the hosts discuss why Martin Luther King should not be limited by a selection of words from the "I Have a Dream" speech delivered in 1963, and how he pointed out the failings of America, confronted those in power, and challenged them to make that dream a reality.

A FEW KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE

If you look at the "I Have a Dream "speech, and you don't look at that one line, but you look at what he said about the state of Black America and how black Americans were shackled in their own country, then you get a better sense of how he was confronting America and his treatment of a large segment of the population.
A great starting point to understand that when Martin Luther King Jr. says non-violent, he's confronting a system of American apartheid that is making second-class citizens.
America's a violent nation. It was born of violence. It was maintained by violence in the form of a civil war, and it's held together through violence. Martin Luther King was a revolutionary and his revolution wasn't premised on having more guns.

To download the transcript, CLICK HERE

LINKS IN THIS EPISODE

MLK NBC Interview 11 months before his assassination

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xsbt3a7K-8

Letter From Birmingham Jail

https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html

Homestead Act of 1862

https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/civil_war/Homestead_Act.htm#:~:text=To%20help%20develop%20the%20American,western%20land%20to%20individual%20settlers

https://www.aaihs.org/race-reconstruction/#:~:text=Since%20the%20Homestead%20Act%20was,and%20immigrant%20%E2%80%93%20profited%20from%20it.

I Have A Dream Speech Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smEqnnklfYs

I Have A Dream Speech Transcript

https://www.npr.org/2010/01/18/122701268/i-have-a-dream-speech-in-its-entirety

Frontline Transcript February 10, 1998

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/race/etc/script.html

Washington Post Story on passage of King Day

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/articles/solemn_senate_votes_for_national_holiday.html

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John Lewis Voting Rights Act

Role of Protest in Fostering Change

They Don't Dare Call It Treason: Our House is Under Attack. Where's POTUS? Jan 06, 2023

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EPISODE SUMMARY In this episode, the hosts discuss the actions and inactions of Donald Trump during the January, 6 2021 attack on the Capitol and why letting it go unpunished is not a positive option.

A FEW KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE

Where we stand on the Trump's actions (or lack thereof) from the January 6th, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol.
Leaders with fascist tendencies have a very good grasp on media and you cannot deny that Trump's skill with the media and communicating.
People in authority cannot be excused from the consequences of their actions.

To download the transcript, CLICK HERE

LINKS IN THIS EPISODE

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Some things from the Nixon Tapes https://www.history.com/news/nixon-secret-tapes-quotes-scandal-watergate

January 6th Committee Report

https://www.govinfo.gov/committee/house-january6th?path=/browsecommittee/chamber/house/committee/january6th/collection/CRPT/congress/117

Full Committee Report https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-J6-REPORT/pdf/GPO-J6-REPORT.pdf Trump's Message to Crowd

https://www.c-span.org/video/?507774-1/president-trump-claims-election-stolen-tells-protesters-leave-capitol

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