Jonathan Capehart

Journalist

1967-07-02

Quotes by Jonathan Capehart

• To justify stripping women of their right to choose an abortion, Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s leaked draft opinion had to pull from all sorts of sources. The judicial screed relies on a 13th-century treatise that held women in regard 'inferior to that of men.'

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• Caught in a racial uproar, people make all sorts of promises to make amends. Whatever they do tends to be heavy on symbolism and light on lasting change.

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• If Republicans aren't willing to vote for voting rights, and if the only way to safeguard our fundamental right to vote is to blow up the filibuster, then ignore McConnell's taunts and do it.

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• Many of their predecessors handled issues of race the way we tiptoe across the thinnest of ice - if they didn't avoid them altogether. Biden and Harris are not afraid to take them head-on - perhaps because the omnipresent subject of race has become so unavoidable.

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• I'm all for keeping people out of jail who shouldn't be there. And I'm certainly all for the equal application of our laws, even the Second Amendment. But the trade-off - more guns legally on the street and concealed - hardly makes me feel safer.

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• Trust me, Black folks are tired of always having to save this country from itself and then being ignored once the winner of their vote is in office.

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• We must not be cowed by the terror unleashed by White men drowning in the deep end of racism, xenophobia and misogyny.

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• Black women have been saving this republic since its founding. That was especially so during the Trump era when their turnout helped elect Democrats in unlikely places such as Alabama and Georgia.

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• Our Constitution is a mighty document, but the rights it secures require constant vigilance - and the unwavering voices of justices who dissent against acts of 'raw judicial power' that would take those rights away.

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• Whenever I leave my apartment, especially if I go on a head-cleansing walk, I always have three things in my pocket: my driver's license, health insurance card and Washington Post business card with my husband's cellphone number and message to call him in an emergency.

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• Gerrymandering is a problem, of course, and the Senate is built in a way that disadvantages Democrats. Unfair as it may be, voter participation is the one power individuals can wield against those headwinds.

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• Woke supremacy' ranks up there with that tired crutch of the right known as 'cancel culture.' The purpose of both phrases is to shield folks from criticism when they are called out for their actions or their deeply ignorant musings that peddle in racism, xenophobia or misogyny.

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