Ted Cruz says a Black woman on the Supreme Court is an 'insult to Black women' (not The Onion)

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Ted Cruz thinks that Biden’s commitment to appoint a black woman to SCOTUS is an insult to black women! How many people of all races and gender think that Cruz is an insult to humanity? 🙋‍♀️
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independent.co.uk
Ted Cruz says a Black woman on the Supreme Court is an ‘insult to Black women’
‘The fact that he’s willing to make a promise at the outset, that it must be a Black woman, I got to say, that’s offensive’
5:42 PM · Jan 31, 2022

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ted-cruz-supreme-court-black-b2004406.html

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Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz has said that President Joe Biden’s promise to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer with a Black woman is “offensive” and an “insult to Black women”.

“The fact that he’s willing to make a promise at the outset, that it must be a Black woman, I got to say, that’s offensive,” Mr Cruz said on his podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz. “Black women are, what, six per cent of the US population? He’s saying to 94 per cent of Americans, ‘I don’t give a damn about you’.”

“It’s actually an insult to Black women – if he came and he said ‘I’m going to put the best jurist on the court’ and he looked at a number of people and he ended up nominating a Black woman – he could credibly say ‘I’m nominating the person who’s most qualified’,” Mr Cruz added.

“He’s not even pretending to say that, he’s saying ‘if you’re a white guy – tough luck, if you’re a white woman – tough luck, if you’re [Attorney General and 2016 Supreme Court nominee] Merrick Garland – how much does it suck to be Merrick Garland?” Mr Cruz pondered.

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