Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Black Patriotism
Notes from America with Kai Wright
WNYC Studios
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The Senate’s questioning of Ketanji Brown Jackson revealed where she might fit in the history, and future, of the Supreme Court. Host Kai Wright is joined by Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law at New York University, Melissa Murray, to discuss. Plus, a National Geographic explorer’s story of diving for sunken slave ships.
Companion listening for this episode:
Can America Be Redeemed? (7/5/2021)
Eddie Glaude and Imani Perry consider the question through the work of James Baldwin and Richard Wright. Plus: How our country could enter a period of “post-traumatic growth.”
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the United States of anxiety, diving for the wreckage of slave ships, I had |
| 0:06.4 | this question throughout all of this work. |
| 0:10.4 | Like, where is home for me? |
| 0:13.6 | Where is home for us as black people? |
| 0:16.4 | Can these slave ships help us feel a sense of belonging, a sense of home? |
| 0:23.2 | We peek underwater with National Geographic Storyteller and explore Tara Roberts. |
| 0:29.3 | First, after three days and hundreds of dubious questions, did we learn anything meaningful |
| 0:35.8 | from Judge Kataji Brown-Jackson's confirmation hearings? |
| 0:43.8 | We're in front of the Supreme Court of the United States. |
| 0:45.9 | The big news of the week is a confirmation hearing for Kataji Brown-Jackson. |
| 0:51.4 | Are there any moments out of stuck out to you? |
| 0:53.3 | Absolutely. |
| 0:54.3 | Critical race theory, child chronographers, it's just been ridiculous. |
| 0:59.3 | I think that the theater has been ridiculous, as usual. |
| 1:02.8 | Just hearing what she's been, you know, having to engage with, my hat goes off to her. |
| 1:08.0 | And what does this moment mean to you? |
| 1:10.2 | Well, as a black man with the daughter who aspires to law school, it just one more not that, |
| 1:16.9 | you know, our forefather's fought for, so it's immensely important. |
| 1:20.6 | Of course, we're here in women's history month and what better way to stand behind this |
| 1:26.0 | woman who is overqualified to serve as the first African-American woman, Supreme Court justice. |
| 1:32.5 | So I'm here in solidarity. |
| 1:39.5 | Welcome to the show. |
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