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Quotation: Justice Jackson
“I have dedicated my career to public service because I love this country and our Constitution and the rights that make us free. … It has taken 232 years and 115 prior appointments for a Black woman to be selected to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States — but we’ve made it. … So as I take on this new role, I strongly believe that this is a moment in which all Americans can take great pride. We have come a long way toward perfecting our union. In my family, it took just one generation to go from segregation to the Supreme Court of the United States.
And it is an honor — the honor of a lifetime — for me to have this chance to join the Court, to promote the rule of law at the highest level, and to do my part to carry our shared project of democracy and equal justice under law forward, into the future.” — Ketanji Brown Jackson
I remember someone much closer to segregation who said:
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sorry, Rev. Dr. King, but now we appoint based on color, sex, and who people want to get jiggy with. We nearly got where you wanted, but it didn’t serve the left’s goals of division.
Published in Group Writing
Justice Jackson.
Is that movie anything like Action Jackson?
I was thinking of Action.
Edit: too slow
Trigger warning: the following will be blatantly and bluntly politically incorrect. While I agree with Jerry on the substance of his comment, as I had the exact same initial reaction, I just have to say that to even say the names Justice Robert Jackson and Justice Kentaji Jackson in the same sentence prompts a feeling I can’t quite describe, but the word sickening does spring to the mind as a first possibility. There can be no more graphic illustration of the depth to which our society has descended than to think of the –I will just go ahead and say it, knowing it will ruffle some feathers like those which adorn the people on this site who voted for the occupant and still call themselves “center right” – rot in the “leadership” of this wonderful country which gave us the current Justice Jackson. I fervently pray “he” (in quotes because I’m not sure “she” can tell what “he” is) does not get another opening to fill with yet another mediocrity as abysmally lacking in all the qualifications for the Supreme Court, or any Court, as the current Justice Jackson.