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Flying hours, many flying hours. Any attorney may litigate. But many of them never see the inside of a court room. We know how judges think. We know the ropes. Call us old-fashioned, but we feel that an attorney should be independent. He needs to be able to advise and litigate freely. We are responsible for handling your case and we know how to get the best results.
Sometimes this will be through swift and tough litigation, sometimes through strategic maneuvering. It is a strategy we choose carefully with our clients. But ultimately we are the ones who decide on the course to be followed. The law is organic. Always in motion.
We shape it and think about it. About how the law ought to be. How it ought to work. We share our views on the law, when we are asked and on our own initiative. In opinion pieces, columns, scientific articles, lectures and to journalists. Melissa: Yes, okay, survivors, but listen, killing it is just something a lot of people of color say.
Melissa: [chuckles] See what I mean? Again, can we talk? Welcome, John. Melissa: I'm so thrilled to talk with you. You've recently authored a piece in The Atlantic. To be clear, it wasn't an institutional rule or mandate, but you did see it as a sign of the times.
Talk to me about that. John: We're in a time when we're often told that policing language is part of making the world better, that policing language is part of a concerned progressive agenda.
That sort of thing is argued so passionately that it's easy to forget that it's really just a proposition. Of course, language can nudge thought along to an extent. It makes perfect sense to me that we might call all people who are heroic heroes instead of having a word like heroine, or calling all people who act actors instead of having an idea that an actress is something different, but there comes a point when somebody who has a hammer sees everything as a nail.
We're at a point where we're told that we have to watch what seems like every third thing we say. That opening audio montage really expressed it better than I can. I really think that we need to do a thought experiment. Think about a real progressive who had ideals that I think most of us would agree with. Think about Emma Goldman and think about the things that she was doing. I imagine presenting to Emma Goldman something like that list of terms that you're not supposed to use from Brandeis or, in general, taking Emma Goldman into our times and showing her the way we urge one another to police our language, she would think it was utterly ridiculous.
She would say, "Honey, forget it. We're supposed to be out in the world doing real things, helping people who need help. This business of policing the way people express themselves and hearing obscure resonances in terms and pretending to be hurt by things has nothing to do with putting food in anybody's mouth. I think, frankly, she wasn't from another time and primitive and unenlightened.
I think she was right. We're taking things a little bit too seriously, these days. Melissa: Could it be a bit of a both-and? What I love, whenever I talk with you or listen to you talk about language, is your sense that language is living, that words do go out of favor because we have collectively decided that we're not going to use them.
Apparently, adverbs now. For me, it's part of the joy and creativity of Black folk has to do with the ways that we have shaped and molded multiple languages, but certainly the English language, and created new words.
Might it be that in fact some words we get policed out just not by the rules of institutions? John: Yes. I think that we need to consider that when we change words, often, we're just postponing what's going to be the same problem. For example, Negro.
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