![]() ![]() ![]() cultural center libraries in Europe for the purpose of identifying and removing so-called “communist” books from the shelves. In March 1953, McCarthy sent his chief counsel, Roy Cohn, on a tour of U.S. Purging libraries, of course, was the essence of McCarthyism. His commitment to parental choice apparently does not extend to books with uncomfortable ideas. to “Go back to where you came from.” Nor did Cruz recognize that a summer reading list would be provided to parents, who of course would exercise supervision of their children’s actual reading. Never having previously seen the book, Jackson was unable to point out that Cruz had completely misinterpreted Kendi’s message, which was to show the historical offensiveness of telling anyone in the U.S. Seuss’s “Green Eggs and Ham” during a one-man Senate filibuster, Cruz inflected appropriate alarm over a short passage from “Stamped for Children”: “Can we send white people back to Europe?” Having honed his recitation skills by reading aloud from Dr. Kendi, “Stamped for Kids,” which is on the “summer reading list” for grades three through five. The one he found most “ astonishing” was a children’s book by Ibram X. To drive his point home, Cruz displayed a stack of books that his staff discovered to be either assigned or recommended at Georgetown Day School. And that means, to the inquisitorial mind, that Jackson herself must have some sympathy for critical race theory and its supposed excesses. To Cruz’s dismay, it appears that the venerable K-12 private school – founded in 1945 to provide integrated education, which was then prohibited in the District of Columbia’s public schools – includes lessons about race and racism in its curriculum. Mischaracterizing critical race theory as assuming a “fundamental and intractable battle between the races,” he employed the classic McCarthyite tactic of insinuating guilt by association, in this case bringing up her membership on the board of trustees of the Georgetown Day School. ![]() ![]() It doesn’t come up in the work that I do as a judge.” As Jackson patiently explained, “I’ve never studied critical race theory. Supreme Court needed to be grilled about what he evidently perceived as a connection to critical race theory - a graduate school discipline lately demonized by Republicans, but that has played no part in Jackson’s jurisprudence or career. Joe McCarthy’s (R-Wis.) playbook by blaming Jackson for the very existence of library books that he considers politically unacceptable.įor reasons best known to himself, Cruz decided that the first Black woman ever nominated to the U.S. He took a virtual page from the late Sen. It was regrettably predictable that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson would not get through her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee without having to endure a McCarthyist smear from Republicans, and Sen. ![]()
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