ABOUT THIS EPISODE
My great-grandmother had a saying she repeated her entire life.
99 and a half won't do.
She said it about effort. About commitment. About refusing to give less than everything. She was a nurse. A nursing school teacher. A charter member of Calvary Hill Baptist Church in Cleveland. She cut her own grass at 88 years old. She received a child's share of Choctaw land in Mississippi when she was a little girl. And she passed that saying, and that land, and that history, down to every generation that came after her.
Today, I am using her words as the verdict on the Disposability Doctrine.
Because a law that exists but is never enforced is 99 and a half. An investigation that closes before the questions are answered is 99 and a half. A ruling of accidental death without full accountability is 99 and a half.
And 99 and a half won't do.
This is Episode 2 of The Disposability Doctrine series — and today we move from genealogy to evidence. From history to case study. From the doctrine's origin to the doctrine's operation on specific Black bodies, in specific places, in our lifetime.
