Prometheus 6

This is something I wrote for Open Source Politics last time Justice Brown got nominated. It's all still valid reasoning, and I present it as an example of how to deal with the inevitable race card.

Of course if you have no patience with that sort of thing you can use the short version:
Q: You mean a Black person isn't allowed to have a conservative viewpoint?
A: No, I mean you're an asshole. You personally.

You mean Justice Brown is Black?

California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown has been nominated for a U.S.Court of Appeals seat on the D.C Circuit. Her nomination is as widely opposed at that of William Pryor…whose confirmation was just defeated Thursday. According to the vast majority of Conservative spokesmen, the opposition to Pryor was obstructionist, a liberal plot, politically motivated. But the opposition to Brown, according to the vast majority of Conservative spokesmen, has a single reason.

She is being opposed because she is Black.