From The Hill, “The majority of Americans who participated in a new poll want President Biden to consider ‘all possible nominees’ following the president’s commitment to nominate a Black woman to the high court. An ABC News/Ipsos poll out Sunday showed that 76 percent of Americans wanted the president to consider ‘all possible nominees’ while just 23 percent wanted him to only consider Black women for the nomination.”
I am disappointed, but not the least bit surprised by the poll’s findings. If the nation’s ever-enduring racism and misogyny could be described in terms of its nuclear destructiveness to society, then America would be 100 percent enriched weapons-grade uranium racist and sexist! Clearly, I’m in the 23 percent cohort, but that’s only because I’m less of a moron than the rest of the population. First of all, any one of the purported Black women on the shortlist of candidates is eminently qualified by their institutional pedigree alone. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit is a twice Harvard graduate (undergraduate and law school); California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger is a Harvard and Yale graduate; Judge J. Michelle Childs of the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina is a University of South Carolina School of Law graduate and Duke graduate with a Masters of Laws — granted not Havard or Yale — but she holds four degrees. All these people — and no doubt anyone Biden nominates — will be cream of the crop. Anyone who thinks otherwise is just a racist and a sexist.
Second, SCOTUS should — no, must — better reflect the composition of America, which means the lived experiences a Black woman would bring to the Court makes that person even more qualified than any other race or sex notwithstanding their educational background or lack thereof. It is clearly a missing constituency from the Court. So, when Faux News and all the other RepubliKKKlan and MAGA moron racists start b*tching about how Biden is using race and sex to pick the next SCOTUS justice, then I say, you’re f***ing G.D. right he is. He should. Currently, we have a majority of old white straight men on the conservative side of the Court determining the fate of a decidedly less and less white majority population. And last I checked women make up more than 50 percent of the population; that is just a biological fact — a biological necessity. Therefore, you better f***ing believe Biden should bring balance to the Court even if it doesn’t ultimately change the voting majority. To deny this urgent and necessary leveling of the composition of SCOTUS makes you a racist and a sexist, which is why I am not surprised that 76 percent of America fails to understand this imperative, for there is still racism and sexism everywhere, even amongst our own ranks.
One might think Biden’s nomination of a Black woman to SCOTUS would be a RepubliKKKlan freebie; they can show their fake support of a minority, knowing that such an appointment would not impact the overall conservative supermajority. Nonetheless, since RepubliKKKlans are first and foremost racists, they can’t wait to smear and hate on any Biden pick of a superior Black woman. We can take these -isms and -ists out of our language and aspirations, but we can’t take it out of the nation’s soul, apparently. Welcome to stupid America!