“I know that atrocities like the one we are memorializing today are difficult to remember and relive,” Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is expected to say in a speech Friday in Birmingham, Alabama. “But I also know that it is dangerous to forget them.”
Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post via Getty Images fileSupreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has a message for the country: Do not shy away from uncomfortable facts about the history of violence against Black Americans.
The first Black woman on the nation's highest court is expected to offer her frank assessment of the tendency to avoid acknowledging racism in a speech Friday morning in Birmingham, Alabama, according to draft excerpts obtained by NBC News. Her remarks will be part of a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the“If we are going to continue to move forward as a nation, we cannot allow concerns about discomfort to displace knowledge, truth or history.
Jackson’s blunt words are notable not only because they come from a sitting member of the highest court, but also because they land on the heels of the Supreme Court's conservative majorityIn a scathing 29-page dissent to the court's affirmative action ruling, Jackson wrote that her conservative colleagues were suffering from “let-them-eat-cake obliviousness.” She warned that deeming"race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life.
In Friday’s remarks, Jackson will also defend the importance of facts and history in education at a time when some schools districts continue to grapple with efforts to police how racism is discussed in the classroom. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Republicans have led the charge in public school curriculum changes that critics say whitewash the country’s past.
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