This is an opinion cartoon.
Kentaji Brown Jackson’s ascension to the highest court in the land gives Black females a reason to dream Supreme.
Jackson is the first Black woman named to the Supreme Court, and she will also be the first justice to have previously been a federal public defender. Taken together, Jackson’s background means she’ll bring a new perspective to judicial opinions. Her unique, fresh voice could even help influence her colleagues.
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Being first means you have to be the best. Jackson is brilliant, classy, resolute and highly qualified. Her confirmation is indeed a day to remember, celebrate and be lifted.
Here is an excerpt from Roy Johnson’s column:
I’ll remember the chairs. The empty chairs. The empty leather chairs on the Republican side of the august U.S. Senate chamber. The empty leather chairs cleared seemingly before Vice President Kamala Harris could say officially confirmed.
Before the first Black female vice president of the United States could announce that the Senate had confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black female Associate Justice in the 233-year history of the U.S. Supreme Court. The vote, as expected, was 53-47.
Harris’ words elicited standing cheers from the Democratic side of the chamber. Television cameras then switched quickly to the other side of the room (the left side, haha). Empty chairs. Empty leather chairs.
I wish I could unsee them. I truly do.
I wish I could just inhale the sweet magnitude of what transpired. Could simply embrace it like a warm hug. Salute it as a Black man with a Black daughter and a Black niece. Soon after the confirmation, I texted them simply: Remember this day. Celebrate this day. Be lifted by this day.
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JD Crowe is the cartoonist for Alabama Media Group and AL.com. He won the RFK Human Rights Award for Editorial Cartoons in 2020. In 2018, he was awarded the Rex Babin Memorial Award for local and state cartoons by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Follow JD on Facebook, Twitter @Crowejam and Instagram @JDCrowepix.
