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March 31, 2005
Progress
This is what amounts to progress in Nebraska. "Gov. Dave Heineman's promise to take the state "boldly" into the future picked up steam Wednesday as he made Marlon A. Polk the first African-American judge to sit on a Nebraska district court."
Very bold, Lt. Gov. Heineman.
An old friend of mine used to work at a car dealership here in Lincoln and he would constantly get asked if he was a football player just because he was black. Nevermind he was 5'6" and about 150 lbs. If you were a young black man in Nebraska, you were either a football player or a criminal.
The captain of the Nebraska football team in the early 1890's was a black man. George Flippin was a 6'2" 200 lb. halfback pretty damn close to the size of a college halfback now. Missourah once had to forfeit a game because they refused to play Nebraska when they had a black man on the field. Sort of bizarre that it took baseball another 50 years, huh?
Anyway, I suppose I should congratulate the Guv for making such a bold move, a move that a large number of governors including many Democrats could have made since 1867. If this state didn't have football...well, I don't know what could compare. I'm just pretty damned embarrassed it took this long to get a black judge in this state.
Posted by Half-Cocked at March 31, 2005 12:23 AM
Comments
So is Judge Polk pretty house?
...OK, I'll be going to hell now.
Posted by: Kevin at April 5, 2005 03:22 PM