1991 Redux, or How Rodney King and Anita Hill haunt the present moment

Thoughts on pairing LaQuan Mcdonald and Christine Blasey Ford

America finds itself in the thick of a Dickensian narrative, visited by the twin ghosts of racism and sexism past, or, more precisely, of racial and gender violence and injustice past.

The climax of this rocky and treacherous plot is yet uncertain, as we wait to see if the Scrooge that is the American justice system and legislative branch will cease to be blind and mired stubbornly in…