The path from Ketanji Brown Jackson to critical race theory and racism it turns out is a very short straight line. This has turned out to be a pattern with Biden nominees and that’s no coincidence. Obama was also a big fan of Derrick Bell.
Ketanji Brown Jackson’s interest in critical race theory has been highlighted before, but this focuses in on Derrick Bell.
In a 2020 lecture, Jackson highlighted Derrick Bell, “the godfather of critical race theory,” saying that her family had Bell’s book “on their coffee table for many years.”
Bell’s 1993 book “Faces At The Bottom Of The Well: The Permanence Of Racism” has been lauded as “a pioneering contribution to critical race theory scholarship.”
Bell believed that “the Constitution was like ‘roach powder,’ that whites might commit ‘racial genocide,’ and that his motto was ‘I live to harass white folks.’”
The same lecture also has Jackson gushing over BLM riots.
“And I will finish with what might be my favorite civil rights photograph of modern times. This iconic image, which was taken by Reuters photographer Jonathan Bauchman during a 2016 protest of the police-involved fatal shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, has won several awards and has a name: it is called “Taking a Stand in Baton Rouge.” The picture features a nurse from Pennsylvania named Leshia Evans, who had traveled to Louisiana to attend her first protest. She was arrested by the two heavily armed officers you see in that photograph, and spent the night and most of the following day in jail.”
During her lecture, Jackson mentions, “Professor Derrick Bell, who was a civil rights lawyer and the first tenured African-American professor at Harvard Law School, wrote a book in the early 1990s about the persistence of racism in American life that he entitled “Faces At the Bottom of the Well”. My parents had this book on their coffee table for many years, and I remember staring at the image on the cover when I was growing up; I found it difficult to reconcile the image of the person,who seemed to be smiling, with the depressing message that the title and subtitle conveyed. I thought about this book cover again for the first time in forty years when I started preparing for this speech.”
As Christopher Rufo points out, Derrick Bell was a racist who hated America. And “Faces At the Bottom of the Well” reflected that.
“Smart and super articulate, Minister Farrakhan is perhaps the best living example of a black man ready, willing and able to ‘tell it like it is’ regarding who is responsible for racism in this country,” Bell has said.
There’s also the antisemitism.
Bell denounced Henry Louis (Skip) Gates for writing a New York Times op-ed condemning black anti-Semitism: “I was furious. Even if everything he said was true, it was inexcusable not to mention what might have motivated blacks to feel this way, and to fail to talk about all the Jewish neoconservative racists who are undermining blacks in every way they can.”
The very same interview began as follows: “We should really appreciate the Louis Farrakhans and the Khalid Muhammads while we’ve got them.” Khalid Muhammad was Farrakhan’s right hand, who made a name for himself referring to Jews as, among many other things, “bloodsuckers” whose “father was the devil.”
This is what Biden wants embedded in the highest court in the land.
Infidel says
Marsha Blackburn: Judge Jackson, what is a woman?
Judge Jackson: I don’t know: I’m not a biologist
SNL couldn’t script a funnier line, if they were unbiased and they tried. That ought to turn Susan, Lisa and Mitt against her, if nothing else did
Don McKellar says
All the RINO’s will vote for the racist so that they don’t appear racist.
gravenimage says
Sadly likely, Don.
11B40 says
Greetings:
Me, I’d be interested in the Judge’s understanding of the term “ethnocentrism”. She seems to have a clear idea of what constitutes “racism”.
CogitoErgoSum says
Martin Luther King, Jr. dreamed of a day when all people would be judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin. So what did Joe Biden do? He made his decision for the Supreme Court based on skin color (and gender). If Jackson were actually a good nominee for the Supreme Court she would have told Joe Biden she would refuse the nomination until he could assure her that he had carefully considered everyone who is eligible for the position regardless of skin color. Whenever I hear someone say it is important to have somebody on the Supreme Court who looks like them I immediately know that person’s intellect is only skin deep.
BexarKat says
Of course it is true, only that the formerly oppressed are now the oppressors.
roberta says
I imagine she is speaking of her own racism against whites and asians.
gravenimage says
Yes. Insanely, there are those who claim that Blacks *cannot* be racist, no matter how racist some of them may be.
gravenimage says
Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Favorite Book is a Racist Critical Theory Text That Says Racism is Permanent
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Not just disgusting but also clearly false.
Do we really want someone on the Supreme Court who is enamored of someone who likened the Constitution to *roach powder*, and whose motto was ‘I live to harass white folks’?
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My parents had this book on their coffee table for many years, and I remember staring at the image on the cover when I was growing up; I found it difficult to reconcile the image of the person,who seemed to be smiling, with the depressing message that the title and subtitle conveyed.”
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Probably Bell didn’t believe this claptrap himself.
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“Smart and super articulate, Minister Farrakhan is perhaps the best living example of a black man ready, willing and able to ‘tell it like it is’ regarding who is responsible for racism in this country,” Bell has said.
There’s also the antisemitism.
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Yes, indeed. Bell didn’t just condone antisemitism in others; he was a raging antisemite himself.
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This is what Biden wants embedded in the highest court in the land.
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God help us, this is true. And those who are troubled by Jackson’s history are all being smeared as racists. Never mind that opposition to Clarence Thomas certainly wasn’t characterized in this way.
bill says
Let us get back to correct language. The term is racial prejudice, which as ML KING said means judging by outward appearance not character. Many people of color ,I dislike the word black which is inaccurate, dislike and even hate so called white people when they should know very well that most of the advances in
reducing prejudice and advancing people of colour have been supported and facilitated by so called white people.
OLD GUY says
It appears that for Blacks and people of color racism is their only attribute that counts. I have no problem with a Black women being on the Supreme Court. However I want that Black women or who ever it is to be the best QUALIFIED legal mind available, not just that they are a WOMEN or a BlACK person. How about an Hispanic Women or Man, they represent a larger portion of the population of America than the Blacks do.
gravenimage says
Agreed, OLD GUY. And notice that these same bean-counting ideologues did *not* celebrate African American Judge Clarence Thomas, because he has the “wrong” politics.