African
Americans should hold varied perspectives on issues of political,
legal, and social significance. Race, after all, is a political
construct that has no correlation with our physiological functions.
But race does have a history in the US that is deep and complicated. As such, it is common knowledge that there is a significant relationship between one's melanin and the likelihood of being poor, suffering from hypertension, or being mistaken for a janitor in a professional work-setting. Yet, every now and then you find some person of color that didn't get the memo.
George Bush, a connoisseur of aberrant black brahmins, unearthed another such outlier. Judge Janice Rogers Brown of the California Supreme Court was mentioned as a possible Republican nominee for the nation's Supreme Court. And her views on all things legal are more imbecilic than the Ying Yang Twins Whisper Song. Not only is she staunchly opposed to Affirmative Action, but she also believes that the First Amendment allows employees to use racial epithets in the workplace, and that administrative agencies should not be forced to award compensatory damages in race discrimination cases.
We appreciate variation, but detest this kind of ignorance.
Read up on Justice Brown's judicial angle here and figure out what you can do to raise awareness of veiws here.
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