Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Wore a Symbol of Resistance to the Inauguration

[prodigitalson]

Yesterday, during the inauguration, while Mark Zuckerberg was yucking it up with Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez and Elon Musk simply could not hold himself back from throwing a thumbs-up to the camera, Justice Jackson sat quietly. With her judicial robes, she wore a collar and a pair of earrings made up of cowrie shells. While Jackson hasn’t elaborated on why she wore the statement piece, according to Vogue, the move appears to be a symbol of quiet resistance. The shells served as prized possessions in ancient African cultures, but more notably, for African Americans, cowries were talismans of protection. The National Museum of African American History and Culture notes that historians “speculate the cowries may have been brought to America as talismans to resist enslavement.” (Jackson’s ancestors were enslaved.)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/celebrity/justice-ketanji-brown-jackson-wore-a-symbol-of-resistance-to-the-inauguration/ar-AA1xCglV?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=4ea41487bd604373ad7969c027a0cab9&ei=15

[Think. Again.]

1. Safely, peacefully, quietly, Resist.

[Magoo48]

6. Yes, although a once per week, midnight, pan bashing session would be kool.

[Mike 03]

2. Cool. I had to look up "cowrie shells "

I do wish we had a symbol of resistance, something more subtle than wearing a paperclip--although that's not a bad idea. It's just that people will ask, "Why are you wearing a paperclip?" and then you have to come up with something.

The ideal symbol of resistance would be something only other resisters recognize and that is natural enough that it doesn't stand out as something that needs to be explained, or that looks ridiculous in day to day wear.

[Grins]

5. As a kid I collected shells and coral. Cowries are beautiful! NM

[Bluethroughu]

9. I where black onyx.

[prodigitalson]

18. I have become person who digests the news the way I did in college and for a while there after.

I get a Sunday houston Chronicle that I spend my sunday mornings reading with coffee on my roof. I gave up nicotine so a couple of hits 0ff myTHC-a vape which is legal in Texas for now. AFter I finish the Chronicle I go about my day, researching, writing, learning new software I will use on my documentary. While I work I listen to very disperate playlists that inspire me. Everythinng from Rage Against the MAchine to Sade.

As for personaly satisfying resistance .....write on money

[Jilly_in_VA]

3. I'm a jewelry designer

and I have cowrie shells. Perhaps I should make up some earrings and start offering them for sale.

[duhneece]

13. And include this story in your description of your jewelry

Seems worth a try if this story inspires you.

[prodigitalson]

19. There bare resistance symbols meant to bring in new members. but there are also thos that inspire the already on board

who need encouragement and good old stiff upper lip reminders. that stuff can seem so cheesy when you aren't actually at war, but make perfect sence in wartime

[malaise]

4. Nice

Rec

[Escape]

7. Yes Yes Yes

My family and I have been talking about trying to come up with a symbol. Something to let the world know that we are not part of Trump's America.

Needs to be something simple that men and women can wear or display.

We know who the Bad Guys are from their outlandish Magawear and other obnoxious accoutrements.

It would be nice to know who the Good Guys are.

[Think. Again.]

8. Myself and a few others are using the Paper Clip...

...known for being an underground signal of resistance against a previous nazi regime...

"Paper clips were chosen in part because Norwegians wore them on their lapels as a symbol of resistance against Nazi occupation during World War II.[2] The clips were meant to denote solidarity and unity ("we are bound together&quot ; in Norwegian, paper clips are called binders.[3] (Norwegian Johan Vaaler is often credited with the invention of a progenitor of the modern paper clip.) "

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_Clips_Project

[Bluethroughu]

10. Red lipstick.

[Escape]

12. Thanks Think...

I read about that somewhere. I will wear one tomorrow.

[Tanuki]

11. My late father was stationed in New Caledonia

In the South Pacific early in WW2. Everything was very "basic" and although all the soldiers wanted something to bring home as gifts to their wives and sweethearts, there were no shops... nothing to buy and nowhere to buy it. My dad, who had just married my mom before he was shipped overseas, struck up a friendship with a local man called Charlie who did the laundry for the base. When my dad was accepted into the officer candidate program and was being sent back to the US, right before he left Charlie stopped by with two large, beautiful spotted cowrie shells. "For Madame," he said. My mother treasured that gift until the end of her life, and I still have the two spotted cowries. For me they have a special mana.

[StarryNite]

14. I ordered a blue baseball cap that says RESIST on it.

I can't wait to get it.

[Igel]

15. They were also currency, rather widespread in Africa for a long, long time.

https://theconversation.com/small-seashells-tell-a-big-story-of-slavery-and-transoceanic-trade-500-years-ago-166363

That includes currency used to buy a person, whether it was an African buying an African or a European buying an African.

[canetoad]

16. Please share

[state of stupid]

17. the subject of slavery has an extremely long history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Africa

[electric_blue68]

20. Ok, SCJ KBJ! I've bought the big coweries decades back, and maybe found a few little ones on the beach....

Later on I knew they had ties to Africa.