Stannis

I'd give up my toddler permanently for a National Championship this year.

British intelligence, American steel, and Soviet blood.

Dred Scott? The 1857 decision that was superseded by the Constitutional Amendments that formed the bases of the cases I cited? Plessy? The 1896 decision that was abrogated by Brown and the other cases I cited? No, I'm not ignoring those cases. Neither did the Supreme Court when it overturned those decisions or the Congress and the States when they enacted the Reconstruction Amendments. The Supreme Court's equal protection jurisprudence was not enforced by violent mobs. It was enforced through the rule of law. Sometimes that meant the deployment of troops. The 101st Airborne Division being deployed to desegregate Little Rock public schools at the direction of our duly elected civilian government is a far cry from violent mobs destroying billions of dollars of private property and attacking the very agents of the state who were once called upon to enforce the Court's equal protection jurisprudence.

What laws permit the killing of black Americans today?

I've seen this opinion expressed a number of times on this website since the Floyd murder - the idea that violent rioting is the only way to effect change in this country. It ignores a long history of Supreme Court equal protection and due process cases expanding and affirming the rights of black Americans in the context of voting, marriage, housing, education, criminal justice, and more. As far as I know, in none of the below cases was the majority opinion driven by violent riots. Rather, the rule of law embedded in our Constitution guided the important changes that came from: Powell v. Alabama (1932) (affirming the right to counsel in criminal prosecutions brought by a state in the context of black men accused of raping white women) Smith v. Allwright (1944) (extending voting rights protection in the context of all-white primary elections) Shelley v. Kraemer (1948) (prohibiting racially restrictive housing covenants) Sweatt v. Painter (1950) (overturning "separate but equal" and laying the foundation for Brown v. Board of Education) Terry v. Adams (1953) (holding that racial discrimination in primary elections is unconstitutional) Brown v. Board of Education (1954) (holding that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional) Bolling v. Sharpe (1954) (ending public school segregation in the District of Columbia) NAACP v. Alabama (1958) (protecting the NAACP from unconstitutional subpoenas issued by the state) Boynton v. Virginia (1960) (holding that racial discrimination in public transportation is illegal) Edwards v. South Carolina (1963) (affirming the right of Americans to peacefully assemble and protest - here in the context of racial civil rights) Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States (1964) (extending the Commerce Clause to provide protection to interstate travelers against racial discrimination in lodging) Evans v. Newton (1966) (expanding equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment to public parks) Loving v. Virginia (1967) (striking down laws banning interracial marriage)

I am proud that our student athletes are educated enough and confident enough in their beliefs to speak their minds on issues that are important to them. I really am. I also think it's time that the University place the emphasis back on "student" in the term "student athlete," particularly if they are going to predicate their participation as athletes on the school satisfying their demands as students. For starters, let's ensure that to gain entrance as a student athlete at the University of Texas, you must satisfy the rigorous academic requirements that every other student on campus has to satisfy to gain admittance into UT.

Our 1969 team is the last all-white team to win the national championship. Should the plaque be taken down from DKR? DKR coached that team. Should DKR's name be taken down from the stadium? Should the university disassociate with DKR? All the WW1 plaques around the stadium are honoring men who fought for a military that was segregated. Should we remove all symbols around the stadium honoring men who fought for a segregated institution?