A Black woman — any Black woman — nominated to fill Stephen Breyer’s seat on the U.S. Supreme Court will be “someone who is the beneficiary” of an affirmative action “quota,” according to Mississippi Republican Roger Wicker.
Sen. Wicker, who is the beneficiary of the father who preceded him as a lawyer and politician in their home state, seems to think that no Black female nominee could possibly have the qualifications that beneficiaries of earlier quotas — “100% for us sound about right, Binky?” “Roger that, Roger” — were just assumed to have inherited, along with Dad’s club membership.
Is he really saying that if you’ve made it to the shortlist as a Black woman, that could only be because some historically disadvantaged white gentlemen were somehow shoved aside? Pshhht.
