27/03/2022
MY HEART SANK watching this extraordinary black woman endure badgering and berating; disrespect and vitriol spewing from the lips of these craven and despicable white men.
So filled with anger I was, that for a moment - no matter how fleeting and swift - I wanted northerly winds to jettison me to the Capital building in Washington D.C. so that I could whisk her away from these snarling vile white bigots. And in the doing, flick my fingers - as if magic flowed through my body - to watch those bastards hurl violently to the ceiling and endure a precipitous fall to the floors of that hallowed chamber.
I wanted to exact my anger and rage on those frothing vicious pale-skinned bigots.
Because it wasn't just Judge Ketanji Brown-Jackson I was seeing bullied, disrespected, verbally accosted and bludgeoned.
In my mind's eye, I saw the degradation and pain my ancestors endured at the hands of similarly hate-filled white men.
Their inflamed eyes and seething contempt for a woman that shares the hue of skin of my grandmother, my mother, my wife and daughter - our Ancestors!
Like most of you, I was outraged!
I was furious and offended!
I was frustrated and driven to a place where these feelings had been buried for a long time.
Those bastards reminded me of how the notion of 3/5ths of a human is ingrained in their malevolent spirit.
How are those bastards allowed to escape consequence for their atrocious behavior? Who are the despicable people that would vote to put these malicious as****es in office?
These contemptuous men are beneath Judge Ketanji Brown-Jackson. Her brilliance towers above these intellectually dimunitive men. Her legal acumen soars above their politically-driven appeal to the fringes of society, the kookiest of conspiracy theorists; the Trump cult and Qanan whack jobs that largely and tragically make up the Republican Party. We indeed interact with, and live amongst some truly evil people in this world.
And while I contend with these now resurfaced feelings, I'm profoundly grateful that Sen. Cory Booker was able to poignantly articulate Judge Jackson's brilliance and poise, her almost astonishing patience.
Sen. Booker provided space for her to breath, to shed a tear for all of us to see and wipe away from afar. He affirmed the extraordinary grind, hard work, endurance and perseverance it took for her to be the first black woman to sit on the Supreme Court of the United States.
And it is Judge Jackson's unequivocal and unrivaled fidelity to the law that engenders support from the vast majority of rationally thinking and spiritually and socially grounded people.
Her brilliance, dignity and integrity is only matched by people that endure the same grind toward excellence.
And while those horrid and foul bastards sought to sully her character, it was as if Sen. Cory Booker channeled our collective outrage and empathy to provide her comfort and reassurance that her strength was being buttressed by our Ancestors.
When Judge Ketanji Brown-Jackson is confirmed to the United States Supreme Court, it will be a testament to a divided and racially fractured country, that it's the blood of our Ancestors that redeems this nation from its sins.
It's the hardship, toil and suffering of our Ancestors that not only stained this nation, but through their spilled blood and sacrifice, redeems the very soil upon which a United States would stand.
Ron Holland
