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After the confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first black female justice to the U.S. Supreme Court, liberal hypocrites parroted the same talking points.
MSNBC host Yasmin Vossoughian said: “Minority children across the board watching Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson gain this seat on the Supreme Court (were) inspired by what she’s been able to achieve.”
MSNBC host Tiffany Cross said: “This week we bore witness to history as we watched Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson become Justice Designate Ketanji Brown Jackson. It has taken over 230 years to get to this point, and for the first time in U.S. history, white men are not the dominant representation of what so many have called ‘blind justice’ on the Supreme Court.”
PBS and NBC journalist Yamiche Alcindor said: “Well, this was a profound moment in history. And Judge Jackson, soon to be Justice Jackson, really leaned into the history that she is making. … She talked about being an inheritor of America’s promise of justice for all.”
And the race-incendiary Rev. Al Sharpton took a shot at the obviously “racist” Republicans for not joining in the celebration of the historic event: “As great as it is today, for black women, for women, and for black people, we all couldn’t celebrate that together. (Republicans) didn’t even have enough humanity to say this is historic. And I think that that is very telling.”
No, what’s telling is the phoniness of the celebration.
Where was this desire for the “first black female” justice to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia — arguably the second-highest court in the country — when then-Sen. Joe Biden and the Democrats, from 2003-2005, used the filibuster to attempt to block the nomination of black conservative female Judge Janice Rogers Brown? Worse, when she finally received confirmation, Biden publicly threatened to filibuster her again should President George W. Bush nominate her to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Rogers Brown, the daughter and granddaughter of sharecroppers, put herself through UCLA law school as a single mom. Appointed to the California Supreme Court by a Republican governor, she received 76% of the vote in this liberal state when she ran to keep her seat. Her winning percentage was higher than any other justice on the ballot that year. But who cares? After all, she’s a conservative.
When I ran to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom, The New York Times wrote a negative article about my candidacy and never mentioned my race or that I would have become the first black governor of California. Fine with me. Isn’t it past time to consider one’s suitability for office without regard to race, ethnicity or gender? But on the same day, the same newspaper in another article gushed over the “first” female governor of New York, a Democrat.
After the election of Barack Obama, the first black president, isn’t virtually every other black “first” anticlimactic by comparison? Blacks have been, and are, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies; presidents of the American Bar Association and the American Medical Association; governor of Virginia, once the capitol state of the confederacy; president of an Ivy League university; and listed on the Forbes 400 Richest Americans. Blacks are 13% of the U.S. House of Representatives, mirroring the percentage of the black population in America.
Finally, it was the first black president who said: “My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn’t, couldn’t end there. At least that’s what I would choose to believe.”
Larry Elder is a bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio talk show host. His latest book, “The New Trump Standard,” is available in paperback from Amazon.com and for Nook, Kindle, iBooks and Google Play. To find out more about Larry Elder, or become an “Elderado,” visit www.LarryElder.com. Follow Larry on Twitter @LarryElder.
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This black female judge- is like Obama. She has a big chip on her shoulder and is incapable of being objective. She is very biased and sees EVERYTHING through the prism of race and gender- that is not the qualities of a good judge.
She wasn’t the first black woman to be nominated to the Supreme Court. That was done by a Republican, I think it was Bush. The first black person to be nominated to the SC was Justice Clarence Thomas. The Dems fought against confirming him, throwing the typical sexual complaints against him.
Just as this lady couldn’t define what a woman is, evidently there are many who are confused about what “black” means. Obama was bi-racial and “black appearing” but not black by strict definition. I’m still waiting for the first truly black President.
The Democrats and the Left are always screaming about justice with regards to the Supreme Court and using the phrase “‘blind justice’ on the Supreme Court.” However the Supreme Court’s main purpose is to determine if a law is Constitutional. From listening to her and her proponents it is clear that none of them understand this. They want the Supreme Court to make laws which is forbidden (with good reason) by the U.S. Constitution.
Touting she’s the first Black woman when she doesn’t know what a woman is…
Nominate someone who actually deserves consideration and we might give a sh*t.
This black moron can’t even differentiate between the ONLY two genders that exist.
She also stated that Roe vs Wade is “settled law” when it is simply a Supreme Court “opinion” and can be changed. She is not qualified for the SC.
The first SCOTUS that doesn’t know the definition of “WOMAN”, we screwed!
So we should applaud someone not selected for her qualifications but for her skin color and gender, no thank you. Jackson is a soft on crime (especially pedophiles) liberal and based on her none answers during the general Q&A session probably less qualified than a hundred other potential candidates!!
Hi Bob. And her “nomination” was a gross example of racism. She was chosen only for her gender and race. If she had a picogram of integrity she would have denounced and declined the nomination based on racial grounds. But alas, like a lot of gubment “workers” she has NO integrity. She is SWAMP SCUM.