Women of Color Alarmed by Chief Justice Nominee

Women of Color Alarmed by Chief Justice Nominee
By Chappell, Co and Hooton
Women's E-News

Wednesday 07 September 2005

As Bush promotes John Roberts to replace Chief Justice Rehnquist, who died Saturday, our three commentators argue women of color - and communities of color more broadly - should be more concerned about the nominee's legal record.
Women of color listen up.

As we focus on our sisters facing tragedy and despair in the hurricane-torn South, we need to remember that another struggle is going on, one that will profoundly influence our ability to eliminate the kind of racial disparities that continue to plague our nation. We are talking about the two vacancies on the Supreme Court.

President Bush has nominated John Roberts, yet another white male conservative, to sit on the highest court in the land. Initially nominated to replace Sandra Day O'Connor, Roberts is now nominated to succeed William Rehnquist, who died over the weekend, as the chief justice on the Court.

Roberts' confirmation hearings, which were set to begin yesterday, are now scheduled for next week. If confirmed, he would cast critical votes in cases that involve our fundamental rights, our freedom and our lives.
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the woman with two vaginas -- denise duhamel

The Woman With Two Vaginas

The woman with two vaginas tried her best
to hide them from her husband. It was difficult
because her vaginas weren't in the usual place

but in the palms of her hands. To distract her husband,
she tickled his penis with her nipple,
or she took him into her backside.

She had traveled far, from a place she preferred
not to talk about, and her husband assumed
she learned her sexual practices there. He was happy

until he discovered his wife
pissing through her fingers, as though she were trying
to cup running water. He wished

that he didn't know what he then knew --
that his sexy young wife was also a ghost.
This was no time for sentimental lust --

a ghost can only bring loneliness to a snow hut.
So he strapped his wife into his kayak
and deposited her on an ice-floe far from home.

He told her to go back to the Land of the Dead,
but she was trapped like a moving shadow
that was neither here nor there. Some say

they still hear her sobbing: "My husband
will not have me! My husband will not have me!"
But she has no way of knowing how he misses her

twin vaginas, how he tries his best to
hide it from his new wife -- yet the village is small,
the gossip as fast as wind during a storm.

It's said he makes his new wife slap his face,
to feel the warm tingle of her fingers,
that he then cries out into her barren palms.

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