So, it isn't all that different from the '60s. Again, law is being used to, as we used to say, change the system. And the system which will be surely changed is right-wing media.
Shirley Sherrod has announced, reports GAWKER's Jim Newell, she "will sue the conservative malice-blogger Andrew Breitbart ... for publishing a misleadingly edited clip of a speech she gave which made her, and the NAACP, look racist."
It was this trust in law to address wrongs that drove a generation of Baby Boomers to law school. Eventually, at age 40, I caught up with them and high-tailed it to Harvard Law. There I quickly saw that law was essentially not a game-changer but a game whose rules could be continually reset by the most clever. So, I high-tailed it out.
My belief now? It's the shrewd personal poise of the Alicias, as on "The Good Wife," that can change everything - personal, professional, national, global. Persona is all. Had Sherrod a more formidable mode of presentation of self, would they have gone after her?
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