Columnist Roy S. Johnson on why 'no weapon against Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will prosper.' ➡️
Ten seconds that screamed.
Ten seconds that screamed for so many Black women. For so many Black men. For so many of our marginalized. For so many among us who’ve been pelted with insidious, insultingly incomprehensible ignorance—and looked skyward.Who decided—in a very few seconds—the weapon formed against them didn’t dignify a response?
Not one that came from their depths. From the pain of what was endured to get to that place. What was overcome. What was conquered. In those 10 seconds, Jackson Brown’s own journey likely flashed before her, between those two blinks. She likely saw her childhood in Washington, D.C., and Miami, as the daughter of two historically Black college graduates; saw her years at Harvard, where she led protests against a student who hung a Confederate flag from his window, and where she graduated magna cum laude; her three clerkships, including one with U.S.
So many who still endure—for her to be in that place. To be at the precipice of judicial achievement and service. To be the first Black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.“I don’t believe any child,” she finally began, “should be made to feel as though they are racist, or taught they are not valued., or though they are less than, that they are victims, they are oppressors. I don’t believe in any of that…”More columns by Roy S.
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