Justice ReDesigned is a publication and podcast by Judge Steven Teske (Ret.), that explores justice and injustice wherever they arise — in politics, education, law enforcement, the courts, and beyond. We shine a light on the policies and practices that promote fairness and expose those that undermine it, challenging systems and ideas that stand in the way of a more just society. <br/><br/><a href="https://steventeske.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">steventeske.substack.com</a>
Justice ReDesigned Podcast
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Justice ReDesigned is a publication and podcast by Judge Steven Teske (Ret.), that explores justice and injustice wherever they arise — in politics, education, law enforcement, the courts, and beyond. We shine a light on the policies and practices that promote fairness and expose those that undermine it, challenging systems and ideas that stand in the way of a more just society. <br/><br/><a href="https://steventeske.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">steventeske.substack.com</a>
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June 24, 2026
The Great Colorblind Illusion
<p></p><p></p><p>In the concluding episode of In Defense of DEI, Steven Teske confronts one of the most seductive—and dangerous—ideas in today’s civil-rights debate: that “colorblindness” is the same thing as equality.</p><p>Using a recent media controversy involving a student bullied for wearing a MAGA hat, Teske draws a necessary distinction between individual prejudice and systemic discrimination. Bullying and bias against any student are wrong and must be addressed. But isolated acts of mistreatment do not erase the enduring structural realities of racial exclusion, unequal access to power, and institutional barriers that civil-rights law was created to confront.</p><p>From Chief Justice John Roberts’s vision of formal equality to the continuing effort to dismantle disparate-impact protections, this episode examines how supposedly neutral rules can preserve deeply unequal outcomes. Teske explains why facial neutrality is not enough when hiring systems, testing structures, algorithms, and institutional practices continue to produce predictable racial exclusion without ever mentioning race.</p><p>As corporations quietly retreat from public diversity targets and courts increasingly treat race-conscious remedies as the greater constitutional harm, The Great Colorblind Illusion asks the question at the heart of this series: Are we creating a genuine meritocracy—or simply protecting old pipelines of privilege under a new legal vocabulary?</p><p>This is not an argument for quotas or lowered standards. It is an argument for reality-based justice: objective systems, structured decision-making, and laws capable of recognizing discrimination even when it is carefully disguised.</p><p>The final episode of In Defense of DEI is a call to reject willful blindness, challenge manufactured grievance, and keep the nation’s civil-rights guardrails from being turned against the very people they were designed to protect.</p><p><p>Justice ReDesigned is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></p><p><p>Thanks for reading Justice ReDesigned! This post is public so feel free to share it.</p></p><p></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Justice ReDesigned at <a href="https://steventeske.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">steventeske.substack.com/subscribe</a>
June 22, 2026
Grace for the Oppressor? Part Two
<p></p><p>In this episode of Justice ReDesigned, Steve Teske continues his examination of memory, accountability, and the moral inversion at the heart of the modern backlash against diversity, equity, inclusion, and historical truth.</p><p>Part One asked whether enslavers and Confederate leaders deserve grace because they were “products of their time.” Part Two asks a different question:</p><p>What happens when a society continues to honor them?</p><p>Drawing on history, law, civic responsibility, and personal family history, Teske explores the difference between remembering the past and celebrating it. He argues that museums teach history, textbooks provide context, but public honors—school names, monuments, and commemorations—communicate values.</p><p>This episode examines:</p><p>• Why naming a school is an act of honor, not historical documentation• The difference between remembrance and celebration• How Confederate symbols continue to communicate exclusion and hierarchy• Why “wokeness” has become a slur for awareness and historical accountability• What Germany’s confrontation with its past can teach us about public memory• Why discomfort is not oppression—and why accountability is not humiliation</p><p>Teske also shares a deeply personal reflection about his own family’s connection to slavery and explains why acknowledging history honestly is not an act of self-condemnation, but an act of civic integrity.</p><p>At its core, this episode asks a simple but profound question:</p><p>What belongs in memory—and what belongs in places of honor?</p><p>Because some things belong in museums.</p><p>Some things belong in textbooks.</p><p>Some things belong in memory.</p><p>But not everything that belongs to history deserves celebration.</p><p>And when we confuse remembrance with honor, we do not preserve history.</p><p>We rehearse humiliation.</p><p>Steve Teske is a retired judge from Georgia and currently is legal counsel to the Department of Social Services for the Pascua Yaqui Pueblo Tribe. He has testified before Congress on four occasions and numerous state legislatures on issues involving civil rights, reducing racial disparities in justice systems, and juvenile justice reforms. Teske has authored several articles published in professional and peer-reviewed journals and is the recipient of numerous awards including the Juvenile Law Prize Award. He hosts The Teske Brief podcast at www.youtube.com/@judgeteske</p><p><p>Justice ReDesigned is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></p><p><p>Thanks for reading Justice ReDesigned! This post is public so feel free to share it.</p></p><p></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Justice ReDesigned at <a href="https://steventeske.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">steventeske.substack.com/subscribe</a>
June 19, 2026
Grace for the Oppressor?
<p></p><p></p><p>In this episode of Justice ReDesigned, retired Judge Steve Teske continues the DEI series with a deeply personal and morally direct examination of what he calls one of the most revealing demands of the current backlash against “wokeness”: the demand for grace—not for the oppressed, but for the oppressor.</p><p>Titled Grace for the Oppressor? Why the War on “Wokeness” Is a Moral Evasion, this episode confronts the argument that Confederate leaders, enslavers, and defenders of racial bondage should be judged gently because they were “products of their time.” Judge Teske challenges that claim at its core, arguing that slavery was not morally ambiguous in the 19th century. Abolitionists condemned it, enslaved people resisted it, religious leaders denounced it, and millions fought a war over it. The problem was not ignorance. The problem was indifference, self-interest, and power.</p><p>Through the lens of Confederate school names, public memory, and the misuse of the word “grace,” this episode asks a central question: grace for whom? For those who bought, sold, exploited, and dehumanized others? Or for those who endured the trauma of that oppression and whose descendants are still asked to carry its weight quietly?</p><p>Judge Teske argues that grace without accountability is not reconciliation. It is absolution without repentance. And when society extends mercy upward while demanding endurance downward, it is not healing history. It is protecting power.</p><p>This episode is a powerful meditation on memory, moral responsibility, and the danger of using “neutrality” and “grace” to avoid telling the truth.</p><p><p>Justice ReDesigned is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></p><p><p>Thanks for reading Justice ReDesigned! This post is public so feel free to share it.</p></p><p></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Justice ReDesigned at <a href="https://steventeske.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">steventeske.substack.com/subscribe</a>
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