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Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️

Mar 17 • 9 tweets • 2 min read

Ketanji Brown Jackson is a lifelong admirer of the father of critical race theory, Derrick Bell, who wrote that the Constitution was like "roach powder," that whites might commit "racial genocide," and that his motto was "I live to harass white folks."

This isn't a speech from thirty years ago. It's from January 20, 2020. She endorses a book that was foundational to critical race theory and made the case that, given the choice, whites would trade African-Americans away to space aliens and banish them from the universe.

This isn't just metaphorical. Bell told NPR's Fresh Air he believed whites would make the trade in real life. He argued in the book that the history of slavery was not only "an example of what white America has done," but "a constant reminder of what white American might do."

Senators should cite passages from "Faces at the Bottom of the Well" and ask if Judge Jackson agrees with them. Put her on the spot about critical race theory.

The Daily Wire has a good piece on the judge's history with critical race theory. Read here:
dailywire.com/news/bidens-su…

UPDATE: Jackson's math doesn't add up. She was born in 1970 and "Faces at the Bottom of the Well" wasn't published until 1992, when she was 22 years old and a student at Harvard—during the exact timeframe that Derrick Bell was engaging in his nationally-publicized protest.

In other words, her story that her parents had "Faces at the Bottom of the Well"—a key text of critical race theory—on their coffee table when Jackson was growing up is absolutely false. Jackson made up the story and is obscuring her connection to CRT. The Senate should ask why.

To recap, Ketanji Brown Jackson and the father of critical race theory, Derrick Bell, were both at Harvard during the same years. Jackson cites Bell as an inspiration and wrote her thesis on "the hands of oppression" and the law. What is her relationship with CRT?

Here's the full transcript of Jackson's speech citing Derrick Bell and drawing extensively on the work of Bell's widow, Janet Dewart Bell, who played a pivotal role in promoting critical race theory after his death.
scribd.com/document/56512…

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