In the past three years, four black women have moved into positions of great power. They have failed miserably. Their failure is not due to their color or sex. Their failure is due solely to their ideology, which was the key factor in their getting the jobs in the first place
Since Joe Biden took office, four prominent black women have been selected for very powerful positions. They were ostensibly chosen because they were black women, but ultimately, their selection was secured because of their leftist political ideology. All have been failures, by most reasonable accounts. There are many successful, bright black women in business and politics. The ones discussed herewith would appear not to be amongst them.
Our four trailblazers:
*Kamala Harris
*Ketanji Brown Jackson
*Karine Jean-Pierre (KJP)
*Claudine Gay
The first three women are all directly related to Joe Biden’s administration. Joe Biden selected Kamala Harris due to her skin color and sex. He made no effort to hide such selection criteria. When Biden selected Harris, she had quit the presidential race, polled at 1.9% and even trailed other Democrats in her home state of California. She had no great following of supporters or legislative victories in the Senate or in her various jobs in California. She famously got her start by being the other woman in Willie Brown’s life.
What can one say about Vice-President Harris? When she speaks, she commits a felony against the English language. Below are a few pearls from her infamous word salads:
“Culture is — it is a reflection of our moment in our time, right? And in present culture is the way we express how we’re feeling about the moment. And we should always find times to express how we feel about the moment that is a reflection of joy, because as you know, it comes in the morning. We have to find ways to also express the way we feel about the moment in terms of just having language and a connection to how people are experiencing life. And I think about it in that way too.”
Got that?
And from just last week on MSNBC:
“You know, every election cycle we talk about this is the most election of our lifetime. 'Lawrence, this one is, this one is. We are literally talking about people who are attempting to divide our country in the most crude, frankly, and profound way. We are talking about those who are intent and purposeful to, to attack fundamental freedoms. The freedom to be free from fear of violence and hate … the freedom to just … be. The freedom to just be.”
This woman was once elected senator. She is one heartbeat from becoming the leader of what we still hope is the most powerful country in the world. She can barely put a sentence together. Kamala Harris’ being a black woman was a convenient way of selecting a non-white, non-male leftwing ideologue. Her complete inability to express herself coherently is not a concern to Joe Biden or those who actually run his affairs.
Ketanji Brown Jackson was specifically chosen to be a black, female candidate for Supreme Court justice. Joe Biden said as much. There was no discussion of scholarship, knowledge, ability, or proven track record. Get us a black woman and we will have ourselves a new justice.
Justice Brown has quite a good pedigree: Harvard for both bachelor’s and law degrees. She worked successfully with federal judges and in private legal practice. When her Senate confirmation came, she made an extraordinary statement. She was asked if she could define what a woman is. Now this is like asking who’s buried in Grant’s Tomb, right? But our esteemed, highly-credentialed justice demurred and said that she could not, as she is not a biologist. The actual reason for her non-answer was simple: if she defined a woman as “an adult female human being” as the Oxford Dictionary does, she would have been attacked by the “trans community” where guys are menstruating and women are experiencing erectile dysfunction. Better to play it safe, but her answer has serious implications. Which bathroom does she use while shopping at Macy’s? How can she know that she is a woman? By her reasoning, she cannot cook, because she is not a chef. She cannot drive because she is not a professional driver. She cannot teach because none of her Harvard degrees is a teaching diploma. In short, by her own thinking, she cannot do much of anything.
In one of her first rulings from the Supreme Court, Justice Brown Jackson wrote something utterly ridiculous. In Harvard’s affirmative action case, she claimed—falsely--that black babies born needing intensive medical care have twice the survival rate with black doctors rather than with whites, and thus more blacks need to be admitted to medical schools. The actual numbers in the non-refereed paper, as reported by the Heritage Foundation, are 99.6839% for black attending physicians versus 99.5549% for white doctors. The first number is not double the second, but only 0.12% higher. The study itself has many weaknesses, but even taken at face value, the difference between black and white doctors is minor.
Karen Jean-Pierre (KJP). This woman should have married Baghdad Bob. She takes great pride in being the first black, gay White House spokesperson. She has described herself as being “historic”. The only thing which is historic is her level of lying and mendacity. When asked about the border overrun by millions, she claims that the border is closed and secured. When Biden associates describe in detail their relationships with Joe and Hunter, she claims that the president has had nothing to do with his son’s business activities. She lies effortlessly and continuously. Some members of the press she will not call upon. Others, she browbeats when they ask serious questions. While her predecessor would avoid tough questions by claiming to “circle back for answers” until everyone had whiplash, KJP simply lies and lies and lies again. Her lack of knowledge on key issues is breathtaking. But again, she was chosen because she is a leftist ideologue. Being black, female and gay was simply the trifecta for the progressives who cannot judge a person by the content of his or her character but only by surface characteristics.
And that finally brings us to Claudine Gay, the president of Harvard (at least at this moment). Bill Ackman claims to have direct knowledge that DEI administrators on campus demanded that Harvard's new president be approved by them. President Gay has let antisemites run wild on her campus, and much of the parallel activity on other campuses is a result of her refusing to take any action against those wishing genocide on the Jewish people. Her performance in Congress was a disaster, as she claimed that violation of Harvard's rules depended on the “context” of wishing to kill fellow students and their families. When she is not busy apparently plagiarising everything from the Boston phone book to her measly eleven scholarly papers, she is busy running Harvard into the ground, as donors pull back their money, early acceptance students turn down the offer to go to Harvard, and Harvard graduates (including this one) are embarrassed to say that they once went to school there.
The failure of our four subjects has nothing to do with their being women or black. Their failure is due to their being selected due to their ideology with a nice outer packaging. There are many smart, black women—but they are often conservative and thus beyond the pale for consideration by the Biden administration or the Harvard Corporation. Condi Rice or Candace Owen would be too smart and ask too many questions. Consistent with the closemidedness of the left, Larry Elder, when running to unseat Gavin Newsom, was called, “the black face of white supremacism” for simply thinking for himself and getting to conclusions unacceptable to progressives and their friends in the press.
The left has done a great disservice to both country and black women by pushing forward incompetent progressive ideologues who happen to be both black and female. Failure is failure, and these people have by objective standards failed. And that outcome is no surprise when they were selected for window dressing and not for proven performance.