re: Biden opposed and filibustered a black female judicial nominee in 2003 AND 2005

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Making “black woman” a prerequisite doesn’t mean it’s the only criteria. That’s my point. He’s limiting his pool to black women, but he’s not choosing someone like Candace Owens. They have to still meet other criteria. Which goes back to the OP. He didn’t blindly support a black female judicial nominee simply because they were a black female.

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He didn’t say political ideology or judicial philosophy was the primary qualifying feature. He said skin color was. That is racism and it isn’t some made-up narrative.

Obviously there has to be other considerations. Obviously a leftist isn’t going to nominate another Clearance Thomas or Candace Owens, but the issue at hand is the racist standard of using skin color to filter out candidates before looking at anything else.

It is against the law for a hiring manager at a private company to say that they will only consider black candidates or female candidates (or only black females) and then follow through with that criteria when hiring because it is discrimination.