Pull up your DK app on your phone or your laptop (or, for the really old school among us, your desktop), because this is a rare phenomenon that you will NOT witness too often in your life span; A mea culpa from a Black woman of a certain age!
I wrote a diary on February 3rd in the year of our Lord, 2024, entitled: “DA Willis-Step Aside. Please” (And I know I‘m supposed to put the link to it in this diary, but could y’all-just this once-go to my page on here and find it. All the diaries are in chronological order there).
I gave my arguments, got a lot of pushback-which I expected. Most of the pushback and disagreements with my stance was done respectfully though I did have to check a couple of dudes (you just KNOW when they’re dudes-the misogynoir just oozes out through each disparaging word.)
But after having witnessed the absolute MASTER CLASS (in how to deconstruct Rethuglican LIES-to-their-faces) that DA Willis gave at that “hearing” yesterday, my Lord, how could I NOT admit to myself, that-this time-girlfriend, you ‘was’ wrong.
Madame DA WIPED the floor with those opposing attorneys- (each of whom must have passed the Bar by 1 point. Joke: “What do you call a law student who only passed the Bar Exam by 1 point? A lawyer. And 1 more: “ What do you call a med student who only passed their Medical Board Exams by 1 point? A doctor.” That’s a bonus from this 40+ year veteran R.N.; because there’s good and bad in every profession).
So, Madame DA, do your thing because as long as I‘ve been Black, and have been a woman, it has been the case that we have to be better, smarter, stronger, more “articulate”, more fierce and more fearless to just get an ‘Nth’ of the opportunities that our white counterparts-in EVERY profession-get, just by virtue of being white.
I was wrong. (I am still hoping, though, that this Judge, a Kemp appointee who was tapped to fill a vacancy, and who has to run for election to a full term later this year there in Fulton County, will do the right thing. And if he rules on just the facts and the LAW-he will). But this is the ‘good ‘ole boys of Georgia…….