Thursday, June 09, 2005

Right-wing using "race card" in judicial nomination fight

Christopher M. Rabb of Afro-Netizen asks some crucial questions about the GOP and the "race-card":

California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown is the daughter of sharecroppers. And the American people are supposed to do what with this information exactly?

Are we to make certain assumptions about a Black woman whose parents labored within the harsh post-slavery servitude of the Jim Crow South? And if so, what assumptions should we be forming based on the GOP's media blitz hyping this aspect of Justice Brown's family history?

Are Republicans playing the "racial authnticity card"?

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