It's all so confusing. We were taught that we're supposed to treat everyone as equals. And as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the all-seeing, all-knowing God of black wisdom, famously said, we should judge people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin. So why all the celebration over the appointment of a black judge to the Supreme Court? And not even the first one, but the third, so it's even less of a milestone. Basically it's a been-there-done-that situation.
Oh, but she's a black woman! So even though many women have served on the Court already, including the three that are already on there, her skin color makes her what? Special? Different? More important than any other shade of woman? How, exactly?
Meanwhile, in the last few years it's been pounded into our brains that women are supposed to be treated just like men, so again I ask -- what's the big deal? I guess the Democrats have some 'splaining to do.
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