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{"id":41963,"date":"2022-03-31T18:03:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T23:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/?p=41963"},"modified":"2022-03-31T18:03:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T23:03:24","slug":"ketanji-brown-jacksons-confirmation-shouldve-been-a-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/2022\/03\/31\/ketanji-brown-jacksons-confirmation-shouldve-been-a-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Ketanji Brown Jackson\u2019s Confirmation Should\u2019ve Been a Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"
We are now at the end of Women\u2019s History Month after recognizing Black History Month in February. The United States Senate, appropriately, is now on the precipice of confirming the first Black woman to serve as an associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. When Senator Booker told Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson that he couldn\u2019t help but look at her and see his own mother, I knew exactly what he meant. I saw my own mother, a Black woman, and I thought about her and what it might\u2019ve meant to her as a little girl to have seen this moment.<\/p>\n
Booker said \u201cI\u2019m not gonna let my joy be stolen, because I know \u2013 you and I \u2013 we appreciate something that we get that a lot of my colleagues don\u2019t. I know Tim Scott does\u2026And I want to tell you, when I look at you, this is why I get emotional. I\u2019m sorry, you\u2019re a person that is so much more than your race and gender. You\u2019re a Christian, you\u2019re a mom, you\u2019re an intellect, you love books. But for me, I\u2019m sorry, it\u2019s hard for me not to look at you and not see my mom, not to see my cousins, one of them who had to come here and sit behind you. She had to have your back. I see my ancestors and yours. Nobody\u2019s going to steal the joy of that woman in the street, or the calls that I\u2019m getting, or the texts. Nobody\u2019s going to steal that joy. You have earned this spot. You are worthy. You are a great American.\u201d<\/p>\n