I never thought I would have to admit this, but Glenn Beck totally nailed it when he said that Obama is a racist with a deep-seated hatred of white people and/or white culture.  He’s done a pretty good job of covering it up so far, but his judicial nominees expose him for what he really is:

Dave Weigel reports that the conservative Committee for Justice is complaining in the aftermath of the nomination of one Latino and one African American to the federal bench, that President Obama’s judicial nominees aren’t diverse enough because there aren’t enough southern white men among them.

Does President Obama or his advisors believe that southern white men are likely to be bigoted, making them unfit to serve on the second most powerful court in the land? We hope not and readily concede that it is difficult to know if any such stereotype lurks in the White House….

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Just to put this in perspective, a whopping 18 percent of judges on the federal bench are people of color. But in the eyes of this conservative group, assigning more white men to the federal bench “transcends racial divisions,” and that doing otherwise reflects a selection process “dominated by racial and gender preferences.”

So, to sum up, nominating two people of color (three, if you count Sotomayor) to an institution that is 82% white is stone-cold racist.  Just imagine the crushing blow to diversity if that number were to dip down to, say, 75%.

That may be a little unfair.  The CFJ isn’t talking about the federal judiciary as a whole, they’re talking specifically about the Southern Appeals courts, where there is a large pool of Southern white males that Obama is presumably snubbing because of Teh Racism.  Those courts probably have a lot more minorities on them already because the South has such a high minority population, right?  The CFJ specifically refers to the Appeals Courts for the Fourth, the Fifth, and the Eleventh Circuits, so I did some quick digging and counting at the Federal Judiciary’s website.  Result: 87% white, 5% Latino, 8% African American.

Wow.  Apparently the CFR thinks that 87% just isn’t white enough, even in a region with a 30% minority population, because they seem so offended by any attempt to whittle that number down.  Me, I’m trying to remember the last time I looked at a powerful, influential organization and thought, “You know what they need?  More white guys!”


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