Diversity and The Supreme Court II, or, The Exception to The Rule

For groups like People for the American Way, qualifications and intelligence take a back seat to identity - race and gender - in their quest to build a perfect society, (but, as previously noted, apparently only for the Supreme Court, Corporate Boards, and college campuses - not for People for the American Way.)

However, there are some minority women that cannot be part of this utopian elite.These are the apostates, the heretics. These are the minority conservative/libertarian prospective nominees, like Janice Rogers Brown.

She is very tough and smart, a strict constitutional constructionalist and not a big fan of judicial activism. Brown has been declared an "enemy" of women and minorities, mainly because she would like to limit the size and scope of government, because she believes that girls under the age of 18 should have to notify their parents before having an abortion, and because she thinks broad-based affirmative action may not be such a great idea. In other words, she is a traditional ideological conservative.

Normally, this would be understandable coming from the stereotypical "white middle aged man", but from a black middle aged woman, it is unacceptable. Like Condi Rice, Alberto Gonzales, Colin Powell, Linda Chavez and many, many other minority public servants who happen to be politically conservative, Brown is just "acting white".

I like Brown, not because she is black or female, but because she is, as mentioned, tough and smart. Here she is in her own words, from a speech in 2000. Read for yourself, and then "judge" her. (Pun intended).

Anyone referencing Thucydides and F.A. Hayek in the same speech gets my vote.

And, she is quotable:

"Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands when its failures increase"

Good stuff.

It matters not. She'll never get nominated.

I guess she's just too smart, too tough.