I am so torn. I am happy that my president, Barack Obama, got to make another decision of who sits on our Supreme Court. I trust him and know that I will not be happy with all his decisions while he is office for the next 8 years. Once the short list was reported in the Washington Post, I knew that my hopes of having my voice represented on the bench was gone yet again. Did I want President Obama to nominate a Black female. YES I DID! Did I need him to do it because he is Black male. Not at all. By no means am I saying that Elena Kagan is a bad choice. See bio here: Elena_Kagan Bio. What I keep hearing on CNN and reading in the NY Times is that she is not a judge which means she has no experience. I can think of a millions jobs and opportunities I received having not had the full experience listed. If there was something I did not know, I learned, I found the resources needed to be successful.
But back to my point of my voice not being represented on the Supreme Court. :) When a case comes to the court about a Black female who was treated unfairly because she was black and female, but more so because she was black, who among the judges that are currently seated will understand that from either first hand knowledge or from her friends who experience every single day as they rise to the top. When a Black family, consisting of a wife and husband and 2.5 kids, decides to finally take a chance to sue the government over welfare services that not offered because they decide to stay together as opposed to the man leaving the house for services needed. Who on the court will relate and fight for Black families who are in trouble and near extinction? It won't be the white males, or Clarence Thomas cause he doesn't identify with the Black experience in all it's many layers. It wont be the other women on the bench as well. This is not their experience.
Currently, there are many seated Black female judges. I decided to include a picture of Judge Jane Bolin. She was the nation's first Black female judge and the first Black woman to graduate from Yale Law School.
President Obama, you can chose a qualified Black female. Sure the nay-sayers will say you are only doing it because you are "Black" but they have said stuff before.
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