BRANDO SIMEO STARKEY

Each American has a right to freedom from caste

Located Near: Orange County, california

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Freedom from Caste: caste preservationism in the supreme court

The nexus between Supreme Court ignorance and racial oppression: In a country with constitutional safeguards promising equality under the law, the Supreme Court uses ignorance as an essential weapon to help maintain the racial caste system.

The Reconstruction Amendments: how Black Americans have evoked the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments as a bulwark against a racial caste system from the Jim Crow era to the present

Voting rights and White Supremacy: What Black disenfranchisement says about Americans cultural fitness for American democracy

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Brando Simeo Starkey is a writer and scholar. A graduate of Harvard Law School and a member of the New York Bar, he taught law at Villanova Law School and wrote for several years for ESPN’s The Undefeated (now Andscape). Born and raised in Cincinnati, he lives in Southern California with his wife and two sons. He has launched a newsletter, The Braveverse, about law, politics, and freedom from caste, at the TheBraveverse.com and a YouTube channel covering the same themes at https://www.youtube.com/@TheBraveverse.

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“Vividly narrated and astute, this is a damning reassessment of the judicial branch’s civil rights legacy.”
—Publisher’s Weekly (starred review)