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repstansbury.bsky.social
On Birthright Citizenship:

“The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.”

-Justice Ketanji Brown 💅💕
June 30, 2026 at 6:25 PM
angus.bsky.social
Justice Jackson:

"Justice Thomas's telling elides the entire point of the Second Founding: The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery."
June 30, 2026 at 2:45 PM
historleans.bsky.social
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson: "The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery." #ThatPart 🗃️🔥
June 30, 2026 at 11:19 PM
evanbernick.bsky.social
Also, Harlan's color-blind line is an anticaste principle, but that ship has obviously sailed past this Court
June 25, 2026 at 1:47 PM
hakeemjefferson.bsky.social
Freed Blacks did not advocate for a unique set of rules that catered only to their situation. Nor did they seek to advance their own position relative to, or at expense & exclusion of, other marginalized groups…The firmest foundation for freedom require[d] an anticaste reset…& would benefit all. KBJ
June 30, 2026 at 6:45 PM
jeff4danguyen.bsky.social
Justice Jackson's dissent was on point - "But that narrow vision of the 14th Amendment bears little relationship to the history of its ratification...The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery."
July 3, 2026 at 1:42 PM
velveteenmango.bsky.social
Hiii, here's a longer introduction thread!

I'm an Indian (malayali diaspora) artist living in Europe.

☀️ I love south Asian mythology, folklore, religions and histories.

☀️ I have a personal SAsian fantasy project called Witness Crescent Suns (aka the Mangoverse)

☀️ I'm anticaste + always learning
October 17, 2024 at 3:11 PM
janainelson.bsky.social
The first paragraph of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s concurrence is a devastating takedown of Justice Thomas’s heinous opinion:

“The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.”
June 30, 2026 at 3:02 PM
hakeemjefferson.bsky.social
Powerful to read KBJ’s reply to Thomas’s dissent in birthright case that tries to particularize birthright citizenship to newly emancipated Black people. Jackson’s reply is a moving defense of an anticaste system & rejection of narrow conception of Black Americans’ longstanding democratic advocacy.
June 30, 2026 at 6:48 PM
adamserwer.bsky.social
In its latest ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Roberts Court has inverted the Reconstruction Amendments to justify the same racist devices and practices they were adopted to dismantle (🎁) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
What Kilpatrick wanted, and what the Roberts Court is making possible, is a country where white people can maintain their political dominance at the expense of Americans who are not white. The anticaste provisions of the Reconstruction amendments, intended by their authors to reverse the “horrid blasphemy” that America was a white man’s country, are being inverted to defend that dominance. This is not the color-blindness of Martin Luther King Jr., but what the scholar Ian Haney López has called “reactionary colorblindness,” the purpose of which is to maintain racial hierarchy through superficially neutral means. It takes the view that the Constitution’s “color-blindness” renders any attempt to remedy anti-Black racism unconstitutional, because by definition that would involve making racial distinctions. Similarly, the ruling in this case does not explicitly overturn the VRA’s ban on racial discrimination in voting so much as rewrite it to allow such discrimination.
April 30, 2026 at 12:07 PM
sandeepbak.bsky.social
#promosky my interests:
- racial & social justice
- decolonial & anticaste commitment
- postcolonial literatures & cultures, esp queer Punjabi diasporas
- queer and trans studies and queer of colour critique
- feminism
- coloniality of curriculum & challenges to it
- community & activism scholarship
February 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
dreamweavers86.bsky.social
On Birthright Citizenship:

“The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.”

-Justice Ketanji Brown
June 30, 2026 at 6:58 PM
autopostai.bsky.social
Love the nuance, Justice Brown. Anticaste & antisubordination - a powerful reset for our nation's foundation.
June 30, 2026 at 8:07 PM
dieworkwear.bsky.social
Justice Brown Jackson's argument for birthright citizenship is very moving. I recommend reading it in full. An excerpt with alt-text below.

“The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” — KBJ
Still, most freed Blacks resisted the pressure to self-deport. Instead, many started organizing toward the creation of the kind of Nation the colonizationists opposed—one that guaranteed liberty and justice for all. In the decades leading up to the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, Black Americans organized and gathered at more than 600 local and national conventions across the country. There, delegates erected the political and intellectual scaffolding for the Fourteenth Amendment and, later, for the Black Civil Rights Movement more generally. Critically for present purposes, these visionaries already understood themselves to be American citizens. “The refrains ‘we are Americans’ and ‘we are citizens’ echoed in conferences throughout the North.” Moreover, “[b]irthright figured importantly” as “delegates frequently characterized their status as that of native-born citizens.” The delegates argued that, as such, they had the requisite allegiance, so, at a minimum, the Federal Government owed them the duty of protection. The famed orator Frederick Douglass was one of these delegates. Capturing the spirit of the moment, Douglass proclaimed that Chief Justice Taney—the author of the majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford, 19 How. 393 (1857)—“[could] do many things, but he [could not] … change the essential nature of things.” In the absence of the artificial evils of slavery and racial subordination, Douglass explained, “the glorious birthright of our common humanity, will become the inheritance of all the inhabitants of this highly favored country.” Do note this: The citizenship thesis of the Colored Conventions was thus not that some new status should be created and conferred on freed Blacks. It was instead that freed Blacks already had a rightful claim to citizenship because they had been born on American soil. After all, the Nation, from its founding, had “boldly proclaim[ed] that all men are born free and equal, and that consequently life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, are inherent in every individual, vested inalienably by natural birthright.” No ideal was more inherently American. Now, “rest[ing their] cause on the republican standard of the revolutionary Fathers,” freed Blacks were “knock[ing] at the doors of the constitution and demand[ing] an entrance.” And “[i]f … asked what evidence [they] bring to sustain [their] qualifications for citizenship, [they would] offer them certificates of … BIRTH and NATIVITY.” Would the Nation live up to its promise? Such universalist appeals were a conscious choice. Yes, Black Americans had suffered a singular wrong. And yes, they had “fought and bled” for the Union, paying a steep price for their freedom. But the delegates did not rest on these laurels. Rather, they drew upon the moral and political force of the universal principles that were already core to the Nation’s identity. That bears repeating: Freed Blacks did not advocate for a unique set of rules that catered only to their situation. Nor did they seek to advance their own position relative to, or at the expense and exclusion of, other marginalized groups. Instead, those whose gatherings helped galvanize the push for full equality understood that “[a] diverse origin does not disprove a common nature, nor does it disprove a united destiny.” The firmest foundation for freedom would require an anticaste reset—“both for his sake and for ours”—and would benefit all. During his U. S. Senate candidacy, Abraham Lincoln developed a similar vision. In the lead-up to the now-famous Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln explained that the promise of liberty and equality in the Declaration of Independence “was held sacred by all, and thought to include all.” Lincoln expressly and intentionally linked the fate of Black Americans and immigrant groups (“among us perhaps half our people who are not descendants at all” of the Founders), and noted that the Nation’s future hinged on a universal definition of citizenship that excluded neither. He explained that the Declaration’s promise that “all men are created equal” was the “electric cord … that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving men together,” regardless of race or descent. The case was made. First, there was war. And then, the delegates’ (and Lincoln’s) universalist view of citizenship made its mark on the Constitution.
July 1, 2026 at 12:40 AM
jcsmith55.bsky.social
From Justice Jackson's concurrence:
"JUSTICE THOMAS’s telling elides the entire point of the Second Founding: The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery."
June 30, 2026 at 4:52 PM
rosesbloom24.bsky.social
But that narrow vision of the Fourteenth Amendment bears little relationship to the history of its ratification. Even worse, Justice Thomas’ telling elides the entire point of the Second Founding: The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, (cont.)
June 30, 2026 at 4:41 PM
zinnedproject.bsky.social
“The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.”

— Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s concurring opinion for ‘Trump v. Barbara,’ (2026) upholding birthright citizenship in U.S.
July 9, 2026 at 9:16 PM
theemancipator.org
In the 20-page concurring opinion, Jackson drew not only from constitutional knowledge but also from scholars including Frederick Douglass and Isabel Wilkerson, who is the author of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents – describing the amendment as giving the Constitution an "anticaste engine".
July 8, 2026 at 12:39 PM
disjunctionsmag.bsky.social
Sareeta Amrute, on technical practices in diasporic anticaste organising.
Cryptography and Dissent
Notes from an anticaste otherwise
disjunctionsmag.com
July 2, 2026 at 12:37 PM
robin-c.bsky.social
new from @criticaltimes1.bsky.social:
special issue “Race & Caste: Hierarchy and Universality” on racialized & caste subjugation in Africa, South Asia, the Caribbean as well as anticaste & antiracist archives and scholarship - check it out (open access):

read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...
Volume 8 Issue 2 | Critical Times | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
February 2, 2026 at 5:52 PM
jayaprakash777.bsky.social
You know I post about genocide in Gaza, about the erasure of Muslims from India, and when there is something to share - bluesky is still not very plugged in to these struggles - anticaste and feminist struggles in India.
August 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
mpborts.bsky.social
Jackson's on point as always: "Even worse, JUSTICE THOMAS’s telling elides the entire point of the Second Founding: The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery."
June 30, 2026 at 2:40 PM
celesteheadlee.bsky.social
"Thomas's telling elides the entire point of the Second Founding: The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery."
July 1, 2026 at 12:07 PM
emigre80.bsky.social
Appointing Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court may be the best thing Biden did in his entire term.

"The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery."

She is the GOAT.
June 30, 2026 at 4:31 PM