Dude has the most contrived emotions I've ever seen. The only part of that clip that was believable was at the end.I'm not the biggest Cory Booker fan but damn, what he said got me a little emotional.
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Booker knocked that shit out the park
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The history behind the Langston Hughes poem used in the Ketanji Brown Jackson hearing
March 24, 20221:09 PM ET
Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson wipes away tears during her confirmation as Sen. Cory Booker quotes Langston Hughes in support of her.
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The poem is a clear-eyed look at America's treatment people who were Black, Indigenous, poor, and who were "Tangled in that ancient endless chain/ Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land!"
According to Arnold Rampersad's biography, The Life of Langston Hughes, Hughes wrote it after being crushed by the experience of putting on a production of his play, Mulatto. The show's producer, Martin Jones, significantly changed Hughes' original work, including adding a rape scene. Critics panned the play for lacking merit and for its treatment of interracial relationships (Rampersad calls it "a harrowing orchestration of Hughes's prophetic fear that the great house of America would be brought down by racial bigotry").
After Hughes was unable to either convince Jones to restore his original work, or reach his agent, Hughes got on a train from New York City to Oberlin, and started writing.
Rampersad writes that Hughes was "fairly sick with unspoken anger," and "gloomy in the interior of the moving train," he turned to verse to capture his pain.
The poem is angry and frustrated, but not resigned. Hughes writes about living in the country in spite of it all.
"Sure, call me any ugly name you choose—
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,
We must take back our land again,
America!"
Booker isn't the first politician to use the poem. John Kerry tried it on as a campaign slogan in 2004. But because the poem is so unsparing, it does resist a certain amount of co-opting. As the poet Nikki Finney told NPR in 2012, you can't just slap the title on your website and call it a day (or read a short article about it either). "You have to come into the entire notion of what he's talking about as a poet," she said.
"Because the bravery that he's asking us to wear, the courage he's asking us to hold onto is in every line, every stanza."
The history behind the Langston Hughes poem used in the Ketanji Brown Jackson hearing
Sen. Cory Booker quoted the lines to support Supreme Court nominee Judge Kentaji Brown Jackson during her confirmation hearing. Hughes' poem is a searing look at race and class in America.
www.npr.org
The history behind the Langston Hughes poem used in the Ketanji Brown Jackson hearing
March 24, 20221:09 PM ET
Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson wipes away tears during her confirmation as Sen. Cory Booker quotes Langston Hughes in support of her.
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
That line comes from Langston Hughes' poem "Let America Be America Again," first published in Esquire in 1936. It's a long poem (which you can read in full here), that captures the wide swath of feelings from members of the under class begging America to fulfill its stated promises. It was deeply relevant then, and still is today — as evidenced by Sen. Cory Booker yesterday quoting the poem in support of Supreme Court nominee Kentaji Brown Jackson during her second day of confirmation hearings.
The poem is a clear-eyed look at America's treatment people who were Black, Indigenous, poor, and who were "Tangled in that ancient endless chain/ Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land!"
According to Arnold Rampersad's biography, The Life of Langston Hughes, Hughes wrote it after being crushed by the experience of putting on a production of his play, Mulatto. The show's producer, Martin Jones, significantly changed Hughes' original work, including adding a rape scene. Critics panned the play for lacking merit and for its treatment of interracial relationships (Rampersad calls it "a harrowing orchestration of Hughes's prophetic fear that the great house of America would be brought down by racial bigotry").
After Hughes was unable to either convince Jones to restore his original work, or reach his agent, Hughes got on a train from New York City to Oberlin, and started writing.
Rampersad writes that Hughes was "fairly sick with unspoken anger," and "gloomy in the interior of the moving train," he turned to verse to capture his pain.
The poem is angry and frustrated, but not resigned. Hughes writes about living in the country in spite of it all.
"Sure, call me any ugly name you choose—
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,
We must take back our land again,
America!"
Booker isn't the first politician to use the poem. John Kerry tried it on as a campaign slogan in 2004. But because the poem is so unsparing, it does resist a certain amount of co-opting. As the poet Nikki Finney told NPR in 2012, you can't just slap the title on your website and call it a day (or read a short article about it either). "You have to come into the entire notion of what he's talking about as a poet," she said.
"Because the bravery that he's asking us to wear, the courage he's asking us to hold onto is in every line, every stanza."
And this will benefit the larger group of black people how? She's a conservative
According to you no one in and nothing from our government benefits black people so stop asking questions that are not in good faith.
You have evidence to the contrary or does this suffice for you? Yasss we made it
People what the Democrats did it was very smart because they expose how racist the Republicans are right now a lot of people are pissed off at the Republicans for doing what they did. Trust me the Democrats let the Republicans walked through the door of fire.
You’d be wise to put that faggot ass honky on ignore
It doesn't matter whether or not I have sound reasoning regarding support for her, because my reasoning doesn't matter to you. You aren't looking to debate in good faith, you just want another opportunity to trash black voters, dems and the government in general. You're like the black version of the GOP, you don't want to see govt succeed and work for the people, so you attempt to disparage and sabotage it every chance you get. I see you. Now go put a lil laughter emoji on this comment and keep it moving like a good boy and troll someone else.
You've been exposing GOP racism for over 25 years.... I mean at this point is exposing getting you the results you want?
He ain’t the Black version of anything that’s a white bitch you talking to
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Yes I'm sabotaging your government. My fault for interrupting your pom pom fest for the latest black politician that makes you feel good inside and keeps hope alive no pun. That validation from whitey feels so good
These CAC republicans know they don't have the votes to deny her so they just performing for their base...getting their snippets for their upcoming campaign etc. I hate all these beasts particularly Rafael Eduardo Cruz's bitch ass
We won...the sister will get in we did it joe
Today - Yes black girl magic
Next Month - why black women have a hard time getting quality men
They swing us and we fall for it everytime, hard being black... it really is.
I'm just sitting here thinking once she gets appointed how soon will she fuck over Black people. I see all the women on my social media post stuff about her being the most qualified and why Black women always get disrespected and I'm like uh I hope you keep that same energy when she fuck over yall because its coming.
QAnon Cheers Republican Attacks on Jackson. Democrats See a Signal.
Criticism of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s sentencing decisions emerged as a theme among Republicans — and renewed debate about the party’s stance toward QAnon.
Online and during Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing, Senator Josh Hawley pressed the issue of sentencing for possession of child sexual abuse imagery.
The online world of adherents to the QAnon conspiracy theory sprang into action almost as soon as Senator Josh Hawley tweeted his alarm: that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Biden administration’s Supreme Court nominee, had handed down sentences below the minimum recommended in federal guidelines for possessing images of child sexual abuse.
“An apologist for child molesters,” the QAnon supporter Zak Paine declared in a video the next day, on March 17, asserting without evidence that Democrats were repeatedly “elevating pedophiles and people who can change the laws surrounding punishment” for pedophiles.
By Wednesday, as Judge Jackson appeared for the third day before the Senate Judiciary Committee, claims that she was lenient toward people charged with possessing the illegal imagery had emerged as a recurring theme in her questioning by Republicans.
“Every judge who does what you are doing is making it easier for the children to be exploited,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, picking up the line of attack.
Senator Lindsey Graham, who last year voted to confirm Judge Jackson to an appeals court, joined other Republicans this week in the line of attack.
Never mind that those sentences did not come up at Judge Jackson’s confirmation hearing last year to a federal appeals court, that other judicial nominees have faced no questions about similar sentencing decisions, or that a former federal prosecutor called the allegations “meritless to the point of demagoguery” in the conservative National Review.
The line of attack has set off a new debate over the Republican Party’s stance toward QAnon. A White House spokesman this week accused Mr. Hawley of pandering to the conspiracy theory’s believers among his party’s rank and file, calling his comments an “embarrassing QAnon-signaling smear.” Conservatives, in return, blasted the Biden administration for invoking the specter of QAnon for its own political agenda, to fire up the Democratic base without addressing the questions.
“Conspiracy theorists did not travel back in time to make the nominee write her law review note about whether certain criminals are punished too harshly or make Judge Jackson hand out such lenient sentences,” a spokesman for Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, wrote in an email.
“Left Invokes QAnon After Josh Hawley Exposes Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Soft Record on Child Sex Offenders,” declared a headline on the right-wing website Breitbart that was widely shared this week in QAnon circles.
A spokesman for Senator Hawley declined to comment on his motivations.
Although few QAnon followers appeared to take notice of Judge Jackson’s sentencing record before Senator Hawley’s tweets, her judicial career had touched the roots of the conspiracy theory: an earlier internet myth known as Pizzagate.
That debunked theory held that Satan-worshiping Democrats were trafficking children out of the basement of a Washington restaurant, and in 2017 a believer armed with an assault rifle stormed in and fired his weapon. Judge Jackson, as a district court judge, sentenced him to four years in prison, saying his actions “left psychological wreckage.”
The QAnon conspiracy theory was born a few months later when an anonymous writer — often signing as Q — elaborated on the discredited myth that a cabal of top Democrats was abusing children. Q purported to be a top official close to President Donald J. Trump and asserted that the president was waging a secret war against the cabal.
Slogans about protecting the children became catchphrases that QAnon adherents used to identify one another, and their bizarre fantasy — initially encouraged by far-right news outlets, then promoted by a ring of social media influencers — appeared to spread widely among Trump supporters. At least two Republican lawmakers elected in 2020 had made statements supportive of QAnon, and prosecutors say that many people involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol subscribed to the theory.
Among those now echoing the Republican allegations about the judicial nominee, in fact, is Ron Watkins, a former website administrator who is widely believed to have played a major role in writing the anonymous Q posts. Mr. Watkins, who has denied any part in the Q messages, is running for the Republican nomination to an Arizona congressional seat, largely on the strength of his QAnon association; this week, he qualified for the ballot.
“Judge Jackson is a pedophile-enabler,” Mr. Watkins wrote Wednesday on social media. “Any senator who votes to confirm her nomination is also a pedophile-enabler.”
QAnon Telegram channels on Wednesday grew increasingly agitated. “She has committed unbelievable crimes against humanity with her judgeship,” one user wrote. “If she gets confirmed the victims remain victims & trapped in the misery bestowed on them,” said another. Some talked of violence.
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QAnon Cheers Republican Attacks on Jackson. Democrats See a Signal. - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Criticism of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s sentencing decisions emerged as a theme among Republicans — and renewed debate about the party’s stance toward QAnon.
The online world of adherents to the QAnon conspiracy theory sprang into action almost as soon as Senator Josh Hawley tweeted his alarm: that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Biden administration’s Supreme Court nominee, had handed down sentences below the minimum recommended in federal guidelines for possessing images of child sexual abuse.
“An apologist for child molesters,” the QAnon supporter Zak Paine declared in a video the next day, on March 17, asserting without evidence that Democrats were repeatedly “elevating pedophiles and people who can change the laws surrounding punishment” for pedophiles.
By Wednesday, as Judge Jackson appeared for the third day before the Senate Judiciary Committee, claims that she was lenient toward people charged with possessing the illegal imagery had emerged as a recurring theme in her questioning by Republicans.
“Every judge who does what you are doing is making it easier for the children to be exploited,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, picking up the line of attack.
Never mind that those sentences did not come up at Judge Jackson’s confirmation hearing last year to a federal appeals court, that other judicial nominees have faced no questions about similar sentencing decisions, or that a former federal prosecutor called the allegations “meritless to the point of demagoguery” in the conservative National Review.
The line of attack has set off a new debate over the Republican Party’s stance toward QAnon. A White House spokesman this week accused Mr. Hawley of pandering to the conspiracy theory’s believers among his party’s rank and file, calling his comments an “embarrassing QAnon-signaling smear.” Conservatives, in return, blasted the Biden administration for invoking the specter of QAnon for its own political agenda, to fire up the Democratic base without addressing the questions.
“Conspiracy theorists did not travel back in time to make the nominee write her law review note about whether certain criminals are punished too harshly or make Judge Jackson hand out such lenient sentences,” a spokesman for Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, wrote in an email.
“Left Invokes QAnon After Josh Hawley Exposes Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Soft Record on Child Sex Offenders,” declared a headline on the right-wing website Breitbart that was widely shared this week in QAnon circles.
A spokesman for Senator Hawley declined to comment on his motivations.
Although few QAnon followers appeared to take notice of Judge Jackson’s sentencing record before Senator Hawley’s tweets, her judicial career had touched the roots of the conspiracy theory: an earlier internet myth known as Pizzagate.
That debunked theory held that Satan-worshiping Democrats were trafficking children out of the basement of a Washington restaurant, and in 2017 a believer armed with an assault rifle stormed in and fired his weapon. Judge Jackson, as a district court judge, sentenced him to four years in prison, saying his actions “left psychological wreckage.”
The QAnon conspiracy theory was born a few months later when an anonymous writer — often signing as Q — elaborated on the discredited myth that a cabal of top Democrats was abusing children. Q purported to be a top official close to President Donald J. Trump and asserted that the president was waging a secret war against the cabal.
Slogans about protecting the children became catchphrases that QAnon adherents used to identify one another, and their bizarre fantasy — initially encouraged by far-right news outlets, then promoted by a ring of social media influencers — appeared to spread widely among Trump supporters. At least two Republican lawmakers elected in 2020 had made statements supportive of QAnon, and prosecutors say that many people involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol subscribed to the theory.
Among those now echoing the Republican allegations about the judicial nominee, in fact, is Ron Watkins, a former website administrator who is widely believed to have played a major role in writing the anonymous Q posts. Mr. Watkins, who has denied any part in the Q messages, is running for the Republican nomination to an Arizona congressional seat, largely on the strength of his QAnon association; this week, he qualified for the ballot.
“Judge Jackson is a pedophile-enabler,” Mr. Watkins wrote Wednesday on social media. “Any senator who votes to confirm her nomination is also a pedophile-enabler.”
QAnon Telegram channels on Wednesday grew increasingly agitated. “She has committed unbelievable crimes against humanity with her judgeship,” one user wrote. “If she gets confirmed the victims remain victims & trapped in the misery bestowed on them,” said another. Some talked of violence.
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QAnon Cheers Republican Attacks on Jackson. Democrats See a Signal. - The New York Times (nytimes.com)