Time & Perspective Quote by Star Jones

There’s a sting of nostalgia in Star Jones’s line, but it’s not sentimental; it’s accusatory. She frames the courtroom not as a dry civic institution, but as the last refuge of an idea that feels endangered: fairness. Coming from an entertainer who also built a public identity around legal talk and televised debate, the remark lands as both personal longing and cultural diagnosis. She’s not only saying she misses her old job. She’s saying she misses a country that pretended the rules applied evenly.

The phrasing does a lot of work. “This is the time” signals crisis, a moment when everyday systems (politics, media, workplaces) feel rigged or performative. “Really miss” adds intimacy, as if fairness is an ex you didn’t appreciate until it left. Then she drops the kicker: “the last place in this country where there’s supposed to be fairness.” Supposed to is the tell. It’s an acknowledgment of the ideal and a side-eye at the reality. Courts are aspirational theaters of impartiality, yet they’re also famously shaped by money, race, optics, and the quality of representation. Jones leans into that tension: even the most flawed venue still carries a social contract the rest of public life seems to have abandoned.

In context, the line reads like a response to a broader atmosphere of mistrust: partisan warfare, inequity, public shaming, or media spectacle. Jones uses the courtroom as a benchmark because it’s one of the few places where we still demand procedures, evidence, and consequences. The subtext is bleak: if that’s the “last place,” everything else has already stopped pretending.