Stephen Colbert in America: the Book was absolutely vicious about our lionizing of "landmark court cases"https://twitter.com/malindalo/status/826122174457069570 …
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"After spending immense amounts of time, money and energy Dred Scott finally made it to the highest court in the land"
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"And achieved his lifelong dream of hearing he had not only lost his case, but had never been allowed to bring it in the first place"
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"As he was not technically a person but a piece of property"
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"But Dred Scott's real reward would come decades later, after he was dead and it was of no possible use to him"
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"His name was in the history books, to be memorized by bored schoolchildren, invoked by pundits and joked about by assholes like myself"
10:49 AM - 30 Jan 2017
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