The Fierce Urgency of Prophetic Hope

©Wendell Griffen, 2023 After the Supreme Court of the United States struck down affirmative action admission programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders issued the following post on Twitter. As Martin Luther King Jr said, people should be judged on the content of their character, not the color of their skin. The Supreme Court affirmed that fundamental truth in today’s decision. I was glad that Chris Jones, who was Governor Sanders’ Democratic opponent in the 2022 governor’s race, took her to task with his own Twitter post. No ma’am. You can do a lot of things, but you can not mischaracterize Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Take time to read his writings and listen to his full speeches (not just the short pieces you see during Black History Month). And it’s DOCTOR! Sit this one out.   I added the following Twitter rejoinder to Governor Sanders.   Governor, your comment displays your willful ignorance about Dr. Ki

  ©Wendell Griffen, 2023   On June 29, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) struck down affirmative action admissions programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. The majority opinion for both decisions was written by Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. I opposed the nomination by former President George W. Bush that John Roberts become a justice, and eventually chief justice, of SCOTUS. But I was not alone. Consider the following statement by another public figure. The problem I face -- a problem that has been voiced by some of my other colleagues, both those who are voting for Mr. Roberts and those who are voting against Mr. Roberts -- is that while adherence to legal precedent and rules of statutory or constitutional construction will dispose of 95 percent of the cases that come before a court, so that both a Scalia and a Ginsburg will arrive at the same place most of the time on those 95 percent of the cases -- what matters on the Supre