A few days ago, following the new of Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement, Joe Biden pledged to nominate “someone with extraordinary qualifications, character, experience, and integrity, and that person will be the first Black woman ever nominated to the United States Supreme Court”
The NAACP President Derrick Johnson called it a " historic opportunity to appoint
someone with a strong record on civil and human rights.”
The news was lauded and applauded by the Democrats in
Washington and the Democrats on the Hill. One can hardly blame them, Biden has
given them no reason to applaud, hence they make the most of whatever he little
has to offer. Words such as ‘diversity’, ‘representation’, and ‘equity were
thrown around as the celebrations went on.
This isn’t the first time that Biden has used race and sex as
his primary selection criteria for top government posts.
During his ‘campaign’, Biden proudly declared his vice
president would be a
woman of color.
The result was Kamala Harris, the most unpopular and perhaps the
worst Vice President in recent history. She has been a fiasco in
handlings tasks assigned to her. She even struggles to construct basic
sentences during friendly TV interviews and in public forums.
Biden has nominated 16 people to federal appeals courts, eight
of his appointees have been Black
women.
So what does one make of this?
Firstly, it is gravely insulting to any individual to be
called a ‘diversity’ hire.
How would the new Supreme Court Justice candidate feel knowing
the primary criteria for her selection is not her experience or her aptitude or
her knowledge of the Constitution but the pigment under her skin and her
gender, both of which she was born with and had nothing to do with.
It also implies that she may not have been the best choice
overall, but instead, among her race and gender only. If one digs deeper it
means she wasn't the best choice at all.
This is the soft bigotry of low expectations, the hire is a
favor to someone they consider inferior.
This is the equivalent of complimenting a black man by
claiming he is “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and
bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”
Guess who said the above?
It was Joe Biden. This was his way of lavishing blandishments
on his rival for the Democrat Presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama back in
2008.
This is the mindset of a man who clearly has deep racial
prejudice.
How did Senator Joe Biden behave during the confirmation of
the second African American Supreme Court Justice when he was chairman of the
Senate Judiciary Committee?
Justice Clarence Thomas has
made it amply clear Biden's conduct was motivated by bigotry.
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1486733302245453829
A recently conducted Quinnipiac poll showed that
Biden’s approval among African-Americans has fallen to 57 percent, down from 78
percent a year ago.
Perhaps this is a move of desperation on the part of Biden, in
addition to the empty virtue signaling?
It is also downright patronizing to think that people who
belong to a category owing to their race or gender cannot think beyond their
race or gender.
It is also condescending to expect individuals to toe the line
defined by the Democrats only they belong to any minority group.
The Democrats frequently refer to Justice Clarence Thomas
as a traitor to his race while Justice Amy Coney Barrett has been called
a traitor to women.
In other words, if you are from black or a woman or any
minority, you earn respect only when you follow orders from the Democrats.
This is a slave owner mentality and a definition of bigotry.
It is this bigoted mindset that undoes the progress made over centuries
to reinstate segregation
in educational institutes. It's just that they have euphemistic terms to make it
sound noble.
A place of education is where students should engage in healthy
debate and be exposed to the most diverse perspectives. The results of this segregation
will further aggravate the resentment and prejudice among racial groups. These
students may find it impossible to function in the real world and their place
of employment especially if they have to work with people of other races.
How shameful that the Democrats define this as progress when
they are actually undoing all civilizational progress.
The Oxford dictionary defines discrimination as
“the practice of treating someone or a particular group in society less fairly
than others”
By pledging to select a black woman, Biden has discriminated
against the following races, taken from a US government
website:
- American
Indian or Alaska Native. A person having
origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America
(including Central America), and who maintains tribal affiliation or
community attachment.
- Asian. A
person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East,
Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including, for example,
Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine
Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.
- Hispanic
or Latino. A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto
Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin,
regardless of race.
- Native
Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander. A person having
origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other
Pacific Islands.
- White. A
person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle
East, or North Africa.
It could be argued that Biden has institutionalized government
racism and sexism through his selection process.
If the Democrats are going down that road, where does it
stop?
They begin with race and gender. Facebook or Meta currently
has 58 gender choices,
if one combines this with the 6 races currently known, we have 348
permutations.
There are myriad other categories such as religion, sect,
caste, tribe, sexual orientation, income group, IQ, etc.
New races are created as a result of interracial parents. New
religions can be founded. Every religion can create new sub-groups. The HR
division at Facebook will invent many more genders.
It is impossible to represent each and every category and
sub-category within.
The Democrats seem to have forgotten the dream that Martin
Luther King had about living in a nation where individuals “will not
be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
The only way to fight discrimination is to totally and
completely abolish it.
The only factors to examine during the selection of a candidate
for Supreme Court Justice, are qualifications, experience, record,
acumen, ability, and above all an understanding of the Constitution.
Every human being belongs to a category and is born with
biases, a Supreme Court Justice must be an individual who can transcend
those biases to judge cases dispassionately while following the
constitution.
This piece also appears on American Thinker
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