My friend, David Shannon, who Toby quotes here, happens to be a black man.
My friend David Shannon recently said that the Kavanaugh hearings were like the open casket of Emmett Till — the young black man who was lynched in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, whose murderers were acquitted. Till’s mother insisted on an open casket so that the world would see what had happened to her boy. This time however, the Democrats were the ones insisting on the open casket and inside lay the bloodied body of Lady Justice. Look at the weaponization of Christine Ford. Waiting till the last minute to raise her story, dragging her through the three ring circus of open hearings, airing everything through the media, and when it was clear that her story would be insufficient to bring Kavanaugh down, leaving her on the side of the road and attacking Kavanaugh’s so-called unprofessional demeanor. The whole thing should serve as a cautionary tale: if you think the Democratic Party cares about victims, take another look at the corpse in that casket. This is showbiz. This is planned and calibrated cahoots. This is pure power grab. And to black folk who think the Democratic Party actually cares about their plight, look again: if Christine Ford is a mere tool in the hands of machinating politicians, what do you think you are?
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