Posted on 03/26/2022 6:51:36 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
NEW YORK (AP) — “Senator,” she said, letting out an audible sigh.
In that singular moment, Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson spoke for countless Black women who have had to gather all the patience, strength and grace within to answer insinuating questions about their credentials, qualifications and character.
It was Day One of questioning at the Senate Judiciary Committee as the Harvard-educated Jackson, the first Black woman to be nominated for the nation’s highest court, was making history.
The federal judge had to endure hours of public scrutiny from skeptics, namely the Republican senators who are erecting a wall of opposition to her landmark nomination, the first in the court’s 233-year history, and may vote en bloc against her confirmation.
“It was really traumatizing to watch,” said Melanie L. Campbell, president and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation and convener of the Black Women’s Roundtable.
From questioning of Jackson’s view of books on critical race theory that drew her exasperated sigh — “They don’t come up in my work as a judge,” she said — to the loaded suggestion that the sentences she imposed on child pornography defendants were too lenient, the questions from the Republicans tapped into long-standing American grievances over race, class and public safety.
The insinuations that Jackson, a distinguished jurist and mother of two, is a secret radical liberal or poses a danger to the safety of children felt to some supporters as yet another example of highly qualified Black women having to endure indignities and distortions of their credentials, even as they shatter racial barriers in American society.
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Boo hoo. Jackson is an Affirmative Action, left wing radical. She’s not fit to rule on constitutional issues. Republicans did a good job exposing her superficial credentials.
Whoa. The BNC went kaput?! Did it really??
Those Racist Republicans dared to ask questions. All you should need is black skin and a vagina to be a SC judge.
look on the bright side
sex perverts will an advocate on the supreme court
biden and his boy are ecstatic
When a child of three years knows what / who is a woman and an adult doesn’t, the child is more intelligent than the adult. Out of the mouths of babies ……
Anyone remember how the Democrats treated Clarence Thomas?
Anyone remember how the Democrats treated Clarence Thomas?
Where’s the picture of the world’s smallest violin?
I-DONT-CARE.
So tired of this whining.
The nominee was chosen ONLY because of her skin color .
One reason was specifically so any criticism of her could be dismissed as “racist “
So sick of the mindless, simplistic complaining.
No room for any substantial discussion .
No depth , no nuisance .
You are racist if you have ANY QUESTIONS.
But with Amy Coney Barrett it was totally ok to dip into her because she has lighter skin.
Yes it did.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/black-news-channel-shuts-down-two-years-after-debut-11648237389
Snowflakes who deserve Darwin Awards.
Yeah right....soooo traumatized.
I get that the motivation of this drivel is to once again decrie racism however,
Most of the black women I’ve known in my lifetime could kick my ass up and down the street at will......the reason for that I suspect is the way they have been treated their whole lives by black men.
And of Clarence Thomas.
Thank you democrats for destroying MLK’s legacy and making it all about skin color instead of content of character.
On my priority scale, the trauma of leftist black women is not even on the list of things I give a damn about anymore.
These same black women probably laughed at the treatment of Condi Rice, Candace Owens, and other conservative black women, not considering them “real” black women.
Yeah, riiiight.
There will be no appropriate penalty for leftists after Revolution II.
How about after Thomas’ hearings? They are feeling a certain esy because they are told to feel a certain way. How many eomen of color even know the hearings are going on?
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