We need more Black women in Law- Here is why
Samantha Peters is a law student and graduated from law school in the year 2016. She has now become a judge in Alberta, Queen’s Bench Justice Gaylene Kendell; she is the only black female judge there. Because I have heard so much about racism, it would be better to interrogate anti-black racism in law. I would really appreciate the day I would hear from a black woman introducing me to the legal profession, and it is needed, especially in the place I am right now. All in my life, I have witnessed and met Black women mentors, Black women in my family, and lack queer folks in my community who showed me with their sheer support.
Later, Samantha told everything about her profession and how her mother encouraged her to go for the law profession. This also inspired Samantha somewhere or the other because she tells about her childhood days, how she saw the divorce of her parents at the age of seven, and how it affected her as a child. It changed her life totally, and it made her even think about becoming a lawyer and protecting all the children from this heartbreak. Samantha Peters is a queer Black Lawyer, and she has practiced law in Canada. Initially, she decided to become a lawyer when she was just seven, and it was a tough time. Samantha, as a child, witnessed some terrible situations of divorce along with her parents, and this also shook her from the inside. However, when she made this decision, she, hardly knew what it was like to be a lawyer. But with time, she understood the real meaning of it, and she has achieved this position. In an interview, she said:
‘’However, initially, I was drawn to family law because my parents went for their divorce. I went to study in France at Sciences Po Lille; I was interested in international law. Then, I took some more courses in Equity studies as a time of undergrad; I was drawn to criminal law. I’m now interested in workers’ rights, but it still draws upon areas of the law that I considered in the past.
It was a great experience to learn more about the details of law and understand its depths. At the same time, this profession and study also gave me a way to understand my depths and thoughts about Black queer femme. So, I found the things that I understood after joining the law course. It really helped me to understand my depths and my behavior, and it is also the kind of thing that just helped me understand ‘racism and society more.’ It also ended my isolation, and I even joined an organization at school, although it was a white, gay male, and it also felt like I did not fit in there. But anyway, I have a long way to go to understand things.
