Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is an affirmation action pick for the United States Supreme Court. There were far more qualified options on the left. But Joe Biden wanted a black woman, and she checked that box.
She knows it, and her work product in response to the Supreme Court’s end of affirmative action shows she was not the most meritorious pick. In her defense of racial preferences, she cited a study that claims black babies have a higher likelihood of survival if they have black doctors instead of white doctors. The claim was made in an amicus brief and is based on a study that does not actually show that.
What the study shows is that there is a higher percentage of white doctors who work in neo-natal ICU cases. Children who go to NICU have a greater likelihood of death. The study, in other words, shows NICU babies are more likely to die and because NICU pediatric physicians tend to be white, the data appears to suggest black babies with white doctors die more than black babies with black doctors. But it is a correlation, not causation, and subtracting NICU babies from the mix makes the data suggestion go away.
Citing that is amateur. The claim had been thoroughly debunked before the Supreme Court ever heard arguments on this case last year. But the claim is already being repeated by the same press corps that lectures the rest of us on fake news, misinformation, and disinformation.
While all this is happening, the left is attacking Clarence Thomas for denying other black kids the affirmative action from which they say he benefited. Thomas has long stated that affirmative action amounts to a scarlet letter around black kids. No one can ever know if they got to their position in life because of their merit or because progressive institutions gave them a leg up over more qualified students. The left is proving Thomas right.
But this all goes away legally.
The reality, however, is that much like the segregationists of the South after the Civil War continued to engage in racist segregation policies, the segregationists of the left now will continue to engage in racially discriminatory policies. Ketanji Brown Jackson premised her entire dissent on the perpetual victimhood of the black race — a view more at home in the Taney Court than the Roberts Court.
But, just as the abortionists of today echo the arguments of the slave owners of the South, the racial progressives of today echo the arguments of segregationists of the Reconstruction South. Democrats are, forever and always, echoes of a confederacy they once defended while conveniently rewriting history to deny the very ideas they still espouse.
You cannot dismiss this basic, proven, and indisputable fact. Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court found that Harvard and the University of North Carolina both actively, willfully, and consciously chose to penalize one minority racial group to benefit another minority racial group. One cannot take seriously the arguments of those who say racism is bad when those same people engage in and defend open and explicit racism.
To quote Chief Justice John Roberts in yesterday’s opinion, “Separate but equal is ‘inherently unequal,’ said Brown [vs. Board of Education].… It depends, says the dissent.”
I for one am glad that SCOTUS had the good sense to toss Affirmative Action onto the ash-heap of history.
What do you expect from a woman who doesn’t know what a woman is? If she can’t answer the simple stuff, how will she deal with the more difficult questions? Not well at all!