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This week on CounterSpin: The death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia sent shockwaves through the political and media world; but for many the real shock was hearing a man eulogized as gracious and thoughtful who called the Voting Rights Act a “perpetuation of racial entitlement,” complained of the law profession’s “anti-anti-homosexual culture” and argued that mere “actual” innocence is no reason for the state not to kill someone. Paul Rosenberg is senior editor at Random Lengths News, and contributor to Salon and Al Jazeera English. We’ll talk to him about Scalia’s legacy.
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Transcript: ‘You Shouldn’t Appoint Someone Like Scalia to Any Office’
Also on the show: Black History Month is a valuable opportunity to highlight unheralded contributions African-Americans have made to US society, but in many cases it’s become routinized and decontextualized. And, let’s face it, a little snippet on how George Washington Carver found many uses for the peanut just doesn’t match the moment—when black people are in a frontline struggle not to talk about history, but to change it. Enter Black Futures Month, a creative project of Black Lives Matter that uses art to spark conversation and reflection. We’ll hear from one of the people behind it: Darnell Moore, senior correspondent at Mic and co-managing editor of the Feminist Wire.
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Transcript: ‘People Don’t Really Have Time to Dream’
First we’ll take a quick look back at the week’s press, including Woodward on Scalia, Sanders on Kissinger and the growth of government.
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SOURCE LINKS:
- “Shed No Tears for Antonin Scalia: Let Us Not Praise the Man Who Gave Us Citizens United and Bush v Gore,” by Paul Rosenberg (Salon, 2/16/16)
- Black Lives Matter: Black Futures Month
- “Introducing ‘The Movement,’ Mic’s New Digital Series,” by Darnell Moore (Mic, 1/12/16)
Among other destructive opinions, Scalia wrote one that destroyed the most effective democracy mankind has ever created. He was by far the worst Supreme Court Justice in American history, yet for a week now there has been a steady stream of ecstatic adulation for him in the media. What in the hell has happened to us?
TO — John Q
“Scalia wrote one that destroyed the most
effective democracy mankind has ever created. ”
Democracy is ruled by those who are the most motivated to vote, namely those who benefit the most from government, specifically, the 51% most wealthy who always establish a monopoly to enslave the lower-half by poverty an d hoard all the wealth.
For the disaster of democracy could be easily be avoided by a Constitution that guaranteed to the lower-half of society the right to own at least a fourth of the wealth and land.