Tempus Fugit

Salt, JRB, Lime: All Souls Day Edition

You must be 21 to play “Salt, JRB, Lime.” Play at your own risk.

Step 1: lick some salt.

Step 2: read this quote:

My view is admittedly a bit skewed. My heritage includes not only the middle passage but the trail of tears; not only the rhythms of midnight trains but the terror of midnight riders; Jim Crow and Jim Dandy; whited sepulchres and colored fountains.

Anyone with that kind of history will tell you quite emphatically that the positive law is not enough. Never enough. When I was growing up the positive law declared that some people were more equal than others. But that law, judged by a higher law, was wrong.

And the civil rights movement that firmly established that proposition was deeply rooted in the natural law, natural rights tradition. By demanding the natural and political rights which belonged to them as human beings, Black Americans in the early civil rights movement firmly allied themselves with the natural law foundations of the Constitution. Only natural law offers an alternative to might makes right and accounts for man’s “unrelenting quest to rise above the ‘letter of the law’ to the realm of the spirit.”

Janice Rogers Brown

Step 3: bite into a lime wedge.