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On the humid South Mississippi mornings when my father drove me to elementary school, Shirley Q. Liquor often made guest appearances on our favorite radio talk show. More than a decade later, I am stunned to hear that Shirley Q. is still around. Moreover, I am shocked to learn of a scheduled performance at the Russian River Resort in Guerneville, California on June 19, 2010. This is the date known as Juneteenth, or Emancipation Day, which is the oldest nationally celebrated holiday commemorating the abolition of slavery in the United States.
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As we should all know by now, it doesn’t matter whether or not Kagan is a lesbian.
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Barring ethnic studies is the next step in Arizona’s now-sustained effort to intimidate, harass and erase those implicitly non-white ‘aggressors and non-taxpayers’ in our country. If you think this is the end of attempts to enshrine nativism as the official state motto of Arizona, you’re probably fooling yourself — and know that what happens in one state can happen in others.
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Declaring Ms. Kagan a lesbian, or encouraging the media and/or senators to ask her to identify her sexual orientation, as former Bush speechwriters, FOX News commentators and the American Family Association have started to do, is inappropriate at best and a sort of pornographic McCarthyism at worst.
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The media love reporting the gory details, the lurid circumstances, the outpouring of grief — but they do little to widen the context beyond the case of the day. No information of use is provided to the community. Or, as in this instance, when supposed advice is provided it is sorely misguided.
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