Brooklyn’s notorious rockstar will impact debates/election
The Notorious RBG Ruth Bader Ginsburg face mask.
Caribbean Life, Sept. 25-Oct. 1, 2020 11
Next week when Republican
President Donald Trump
debate rival, former Democratic
Party Vice President Joe
Biden, the Sept. 29. confrontation
will unlikely focus on topical
talking points related to
the Covid-19 pandemic, social
distancing, spiraling unemployment
figures, economic
decline, defund the police,
Black Lives Matter, blazing
infernos on the west coast, climate
change, the racial abyss,
white supremacy, sex charges
levied by yet another accuser
of the president, alleged lies,
immigration, or a myriad of
other issues unearthed by 2020
revelations.
Undeniably one to surface
will be the Sept. 18 passing of
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
and the quest to find a replacement
for the champion.
Assuredly many of the compelling
queries FOX-Newsman
Mike Wallace might ask will
resonate with increased interest
due to the death of the Flatbush,
Brooklyn native.
Born on the Ides of March,
her legacy is long with historical
documentations beginning
at Columbia University continuing
to the American Civil Liberties
Union where she forged
a reputation as a fierce defendant
of Civil Rights, the Equal
Rights Amendment, LGBTQ,
abortion rights, and a plethora
of constitutional issues.
Her vociferous opinions
impressed President Bill Clinton
who nominated her to sit
on the Supreme Court on June
14, 1993.
RBG was expected to retire
in 2016 but defied concerns of
failing opting to remain a tireless
advocate for disfranchised
citizens.
Two years ago, I was privileged
to attend the premiere
screening of a document titled
“RGB.”
Named in tribute to the
petite, Jewish, liberal lawmaker,
millennials flocked to witness
the celluloid feature whose
moniker mimicked Christopher
“Biggy” Wallace, a rapper
known as the Notorious BIG.
The two female, film directors
borrowed the moniker
because the then 85-year-old
trailblazer said she had much
in common with the Brooklyn
native.
“The ‘Notorious RBG’ is
after the Notorious BIG—
well-known rapper. And when
they told me that’s what they
were calling the Tumblr, I said,
‘Well, of course. We have one
big thing in common.
“We were both born and bred
in Brooklyn.’”
“Well, my grandchildren
love it, and I try to keep abreast
of what’s on the Tumblr.”
The West 23rd St. cinema
provided an alluring venue for
the hot ticket document during
the New York Film Festival.
Other screenings slated sold
out with audiences begging
for SRO (standing room only)
access. Another thing they had
in common was that in their
chosen professions they both
exceeded expectations. RBG
stood tall at 5’1” and weighing
in at 100 hundred pounds Eric
Holder, the first Black attorney
general of the United States
described her “a legal giant.”
Fellow New Yorker Rev. Al
Sharpton called her “a liberal
lion.”
And others have tagged her
“super warrior,” “super diva,”
and in other overreaching
terms.
Like the Notorious hip-hop
wunderkind she was regarded
a pop culture icon, akin
to a rock star boasting a fan
following willing to invest in
earrings, cups, caps, T-shirts,
laced collars, dolls, coaster and
other merchandise branding
her merit.
To many more than the
cult, she was a game-changer,
a national treasure who while
championing numerous causes
in an extraordinary way used
her voice to speak truth to
precedence.
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By Vinette K. Pryce
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