It occurs to me the Republicans in the Senate are going to vote against Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson because she is a black woman. Well not really, that would be racist, but because she is a qualified black woman a Democratic president has nominated to be a Supreme Court justice. Ya know, how can we vote for what he wants when he is on the other team, a Democrat? Well if that is not playing games with governing our country I do not know what is. It sort of makes you feel like they are not taking their role as our elected representatives in Congress seriously. Either she is qualified or she is not should be the only questions to be answered. To be against her because Pres. Biden promised to nominate a black woman for the Supreme Court, and has done so, is not a good enough reason to not vote for her.
She was asked during the hearings. One was about critical race theory. I am not sure what that is, but even if she has said that she does not base decisions on any of that, which I believe. But how could her, being black in this country. not have some impact on her philosophy of law and life?
Another one was about if she would recuse herself from an affirmative action decision that will be coming before the court soon. I wonder if they questioner thinks Justices Thomas and Sotomayer, being recipients of affirmative action, too, should also recuse themselves, since they are basically in the same boat as Judge Jackson? Of course that would mean that the decision would be made by white people. Is that reasonable?
Published by David Brockert
Joe was born in xxxx, Arizona on xxxx xx 1955 to David Joseph and Alta Mary Brockert. He joined xxxxxx. His early life was spent in various houses in Globe, Miami, Claypool and Superior, Arizona. He remembered starting school in second grade in Superior and went there until he finished seventh grade.
They made a move to the Midwest that summer. His parents tried to get work in Minnesota that summer, to no avail, came to Wisconsin and finally found something. Joe went to eight grade in Evansville, Wisconsin. He went to Holy Name Seminary in Madison, Wisconsin for his Junior year of high school. Joe did not make the grade (literally & figuratively) at the seminary, so he went back to graduate from Evansville. He started college at Edgewood in Madison, but without a focus , he did not get very far towards a degree. He did get an Associate of Arts degree from Madison Area Technical College in 1978 for Accounting just to prove he could get a degree of some sort. He never did use it to any extent.
Joe worked as a paperboy in Superior and, some, in Evansville. He did some work study jobs in college, but really started to work at the donut shop on Regent Street, Donuts Unlimited. He worked there, off and on, for many years. He spent a summer at Edgewood Summer Theatre near Baraboo, tried to find a job doing bookkeeping after graduation but fell back to working seasonal at Blaney Farms (seed corn). He worked at the donut shop until 1993. He left to work at Triggs Bakery, Quarra Stone and Colonial Bakery. He has worked at Colonial Bakery since 1994.
Joe met the love of his life in a coffee shop near MATC, where they attended classes and they never really left the coffee shop. Joe was married on 17 May 1980 xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Joe lived a contented, relaxed life. He did not do much but learn, work, raise a daughter and support his family. He did not attract a lot of attention. He did learn to live for the day. He felt that the key to happiness was to remember to stop and smell the roses, or to look at the most beautiful sight he had ever seen, Mary, or to just go for a walks with her. He was humble enough to know that his writing would be of interest to very few, mostly those related to him, obviously, so he never tried too hard to get his rambling thoughts recorded.
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