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Black women feel sting of ‘traumatizing’ Jackson hearings
(AP) — “Senator,” she said, first in the court’s 233-year
letting out an audible sigh. history, and may vote en
In that singular moment, Su- bloc against her confirma-
preme Court nominee Ket- tion. “It was really trauma-
anji Brown Jackson spoke tizing to watch,” said Mela-
for countless Black women nie L. Campbell, president
who have had to gather all and CEO of the National
the patience, strength and Coalition on Black Civic
grace within to answer in- Participation and conven-
sinuating questions about er of the Black Women’s
their credentials, qualifica- Roundtable.
tions and character. From questioning of Jack-
It was Day One of question- son’s view of books on criti-
ing at the Senate Judiciary cal race theory that drew
Committee as the Harvard- her exasperated sigh —
educated Jackson, the first “They don’t come up in my
Black woman to be nomi- work as a judge,” she said
nated for the nation’s high- — to the loaded sugges-
est court, was making his- tion that the sentences she
tory. The federal judge had imposed on child pornog-
to endure hours of pub- raphy defendants were too
lic scrutiny from skeptics, lenient, the questions from
namely the Republican the Republicans tapped
senators who are erecting into long-standing Ameri-
a wall of opposition to her can grievances over race,
landmark nomination, the class and public safety.
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