So Taney, who wrote in *Dred Scott v Sanford* that, “They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order ... and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit,” is being replaced by a Black man, Justice Thurgood Marshall. And Lee, who went to war to preserve slavery, is being replaced by a Black woman, Barbara Johns, who at age sixteen led a student strike for equal education in Farmville, Virginia, and eventually became part of *Brown v Board of Education.*
“Though the mills of God grind slowly; Yet they grind exceeding small;
“Though with patience He stands waiting, With exactness grinds He all.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Retribution", Poetic Aphorisms, 1846
You probably remember that Florida recently replaced a statue of Confederate general Edmund Kirby Smith with Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune in the U.S. Capitol Building.
Mr. Alonzo-Greer came and spoke to a couple of our classes a few weeks ago. He was great!!!!
I am not at all surprised to hear that. Thanks for sharing, Mark.
So Taney, who wrote in *Dred Scott v Sanford* that, “They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order ... and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit,” is being replaced by a Black man, Justice Thurgood Marshall. And Lee, who went to war to preserve slavery, is being replaced by a Black woman, Barbara Johns, who at age sixteen led a student strike for equal education in Farmville, Virginia, and eventually became part of *Brown v Board of Education.*
“Though the mills of God grind slowly; Yet they grind exceeding small;
“Though with patience He stands waiting, With exactness grinds He all.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Retribution", Poetic Aphorisms, 1846
You probably remember that Florida recently replaced a statue of Confederate general Edmund Kirby Smith with Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune in the U.S. Capitol Building.
So thankful for that. Next the rebel soldier at my county courthouse here in Florida, and the one in my home town in Virginia!