Republicans didn’t even bother dog whistling today. They just went straight to the racist attacks against the first Black woman Supreme Court nominee. Read WajahatAli's latest:
Sen. Cruz, imagining himself the heroic slayer of CRT dragons, made an issue out of Judge Jackson’s relationship with the private Georgetown Day School in Washington DC, where she sits on the board. He alleged the school, which has a historic role inAntiracist Baby"WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 22: Sen. Ted Cruz questions U.S.
With the patience and grace of a Black woman who’s had to tolerate racism and the double standards of white mediocrity her entire life, Judge Jackson sighed and replied after a long pause, “Senator, I do not believe that any child should be made to feel as though they are racist or though they are not valued or though they are less than their victims, that they are oppressors. I don’t believe in any of that.
But, again, it doesn’t matter what Judge Jackson believes. She’s a Black woman and, as such, now joins the rogue’s gallery of villains manufactured by the GOP ahead of the 2022 and 2024 elections. Throughout his questioning, Sen. Cruz played the full GOP bingo card, even name droppingand its founder Nikole Hannah-Jones, who now lives so comfortably and rent-free in Republicans’ heads that she should lean back, stretch her legs, and find time to enjoy the spacious accommodations.
Not to be deterred, Cruz continued on his quixotic mission to portray Judge Jackson as a stealth CRT jihadist. He cited a 2020 speech Jackson gave on MLK Day at the University of Michigan, in which she referred to. Judge Jackson responded by saying she mentioned the Pulitzer Prize-winning collection because it was both topical and familiar to her students.
But facts don’t matter to the “facts don’t care about your feelings” Republicans. Sen. Cruz used his bully pulpit at the nationally televised hearings to smear the eminently-qualified Supreme Court nominee as a radical, anti-white racist. While he failed to prove his case, he successfully tarnished the judge’s reputation among his intended audience.
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