'Her parents’ lived experiences with racism, now memorialized in the Congressional Record, are the very stories the conservative movement is trying to suppress with things like book bans and restrictions on school curricula.' (via The ReidOut Blog)
The New Jersey Democrat used his 30-minute time slot on Tuesday to correct the record following Sen. Tom Cotton’s questions, which were meant to depict Jackson as soft on crime and deferential to criminals. The line of attack from Cotton, R-Ark., aligned with other Republicans' talking points throughout the hearings, all of which served the same purpose: to suggest this Black woman was not to be trusted.
Her parents’ lived experiences with racism, now memorialized in the Congressional Record, are the very stories the conservative movement is trying to suppress.injected some much-needed humanity into the hearings. In my view, one of the most touching moments came on Tuesday, when he addressed the insulting questions and accusations Jackson endured from Republicans.
“I’ve just watched you, with dignity and grace, field what I can only imagine is behind those questions — this doubt that is being sown,” Booker said. “I just want America to know that when it comes to my family’s safety — when it comes to Newark, New Jersey, or my state — God, I trust you.” Booker's affirmations declared, before the world, what Black people have always known: Our interpretations of justice are no less valid than white, conservative interpretations.Jackson to denounce Black authors, anti-racist legal concepts like critical race theory and judicial measures that stem racial inequality.
And I think Jackson's testimony has been, in many ways, a rebuttal to the whitewashed world conservatives wish to create. She's made an emphatic declaration: “I am somebody. I belong to a family. We belong to a community, and we command respect.”
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