I am old enough to remember sitting in a tree, listening to my transistor radio, when Kennedy announced the space program, and getting goose bumps and tears in my eyes.
Those were good days.
On the other hand, women's rights and the civil rights movement have made the country a much better place in that way.
Today, I covered a criminal matter for another lawyer in Arlington. A special delegation of Supreme Court justices from, of all places, Mongolia, was seated on the bench in front of me, watching the procedures. It was Term Day, setting felonies for trials. The presiding judge, the chief judge of that circuit, in fact, was black, and perhaps 1/3 of the attorneys were women. Both prosecutors were women.
That's a lot of big changes from 1960. Women prosecutors and defense counsel, black chief judges, and a delegation to the US from Mongolia.
I prefer these days.
I would argue that the polarization and anger we see were always there, but we just couldn't see them so well. People have a myriad of ways to voice their opinions now. |
