“I know I should be fighting,” said one woman at the Supreme Court vigil for Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “But I just really, I just — I feel really, really, really overwhelmed. Like maybe it’s the whole country I’m mourning for.” HannaRosin reports
Photo: Samuel Corum/Getty Images Grief holds a lot of data, and I was curious if something raw was being revealed by RBG’s death. So on Saturday morning I went to the steps of the Supreme Court where a vigil had been going since late Friday night, the eve of Rosh Hashanah. The crowd of a few hundred was quiet, somber, and much whiter than the crowds that have lately gathered in downtown D.C.
Nearby, a mother theatrically lectured her two daughters, neither older than 10. “Just because Mommy’s a lawyer doesn’t mean I’ve been treated fairly. I’ve had to work twice as hard …” She trailed off, distracted by a young woman in front of them who was on her knees writing in chalk on the ground: “You gave me a voice. I have no more voice,” over and over, in a neat column, with such force that her shirt was slipping off her shoulders and her bra was showing.
The ground was covered with hundreds of bouquets and handwritten pictures and notes. The night before the impromptu memorial covered the stairs but overnight it had been contained on the sidewalk. Here and there among the flowers was Notorious RBG imagery, on T-shirts and hand-drawn pictures. But the meme was transformed.
At the bottom of the Supreme Court steps, a Black man sat holding a sign that read: “RBG was no ally to the Natives nor the Negroes. White feminism always has erasures.” A middle-aged white woman talked with him for a long time. A small crowd gathered to listen.
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