Statement from Vice President Kamala Harris on the Equal Rights Amendment

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45. Your willingness to devote this much energy into promoting the meme the RW has advanced since VA's vote

-- that it is all settled-- is so damned telling. You may as well just tell the "little women of DU and elsewhere should just not worry our little heads about it" nor listen to one of our nation's most celebrated and successful constitutional scholars who supports fighting for its ratification--in SCOTUS or whatever it takes. Your daughters deserve better and far more support than what you are advancing.

No skin in the game makes it quite easy, doesn't it?

I am so reminded of Dr. King's assessment of the "Fair Day supporters" he faced among the southern white populace as eloquently put in his Birmingham jail letter:

Such similarities :

“…that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: ‘I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action’; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a ‘more convenient season.’ ”

The great enemy of justice are those moderates who feign outrage at societal injustice, but whose outrage conveniently disappears when real change threatens their status. These moderates are more comfortable leaving unchallenged the assumed moral authority of certain institutions, traditions and practices that are the purveyors of injustice rather than confronting their own role in maintaining these institutions. The hard truth is that the comfort of the status quo is always preferable to pursuing the demands of justice.