How Biden’s Vow to Name a Black Woman to the Supreme Court Backfired - A campaign promise has needlessly tokenized future nominees.

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[–]Trajan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

How did they think this was going to be perceived by normal people? Most people, even a sizeable number of Democrat voters, aren't enthusiastic about Biden and his party reviving their racial politics of the 1950s/60s.

[–]AntarchomachusAnarchist[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Right? Have they forgotten Martin Luther King Jr's "not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character"?

[–]Trajan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They'd rather pretend king never existed. They'd be more closely aligned with the racial theories of the Austrian painter.