A Black woman on Supreme Court was MLK's 'dream,' too

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley had a question for Ketanji Brown Jackson during her confirmation hearings to be the first African American woman on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Grassley, the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, wanted to know if she agreed with Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision that one day America would become a nation in which people are judged “not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

What listeners might not have known about Grassley is that, while it appeared that he was holding up King as an example, he has a mixed history with King’s legacy. Grassley is, in fact, the sole surviving U.S. senator to have cast a “no” vote in 1983 on making Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday a federal holiday.

Without missing a beat, Jackson delivered a poignant story about her own family and sidestepped Grassley’s apparent move to use King’s words to oppose the teaching of race — and critical race theory in particular — in public schools.

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/comment-a-black-woman-on-supreme-court-was-mlks-dream-too/

[Docreed2003]

1. It's appalling to me that people like Grassley use that one phrase by King

To justify opposition to anything that seeks to rectify the ongoing systemic racism in this country. They choose to manipulate the meaning of King's words to suggest that any action which points to disparity is somehow "not like King".

Justice KBJ handled it eloquently and perfectly.