If there's one thing I know for dead last certain, it's that
@DCPatriot is no racist. I've only known him here, and for a couple of years, and we butt heads on certain matters as often as we agree on certain matters, but racism doesn't occupy
one cell in his brain or
one vessel in his heart.
If there's another thing I know for dead last certain, it's that recalling the days when black men and women lived under the nefarities of Jim Crow does not make one a racist, it makes one only too well aware that, at enough times in our history, the United States has made grave errors and done its level best to correct most of them. It isn't racist but it
is willful blindness to ignore those errors, and to fail to learn from them.
And if there's a third thing I know for dead last certain, it's what I said earlier in this thread: I'm not interested in a "conservative," a "liberal," a "centrist," or any of that on the Supreme Court. I'm interested in a justice who will construe the Constitution reasonably, reminding anyone who cares to be reminded that construing the Constitution reasonably will
not always pleasure any side of the ideological divide. For better or worse, there
are laws on the books at all levels of public life that allow what one despises, or prohibit what one prefers; laws that allow what is unwise and prohibit what might be wise. They may not be wise or advisable laws but they don't always run afoul of the Constitution. (I hope I don't need to add that it would be far more beneficial to America and the several states to see myriad laws
repealed, to say nothing of only one more law to emanate from Congress, which would say,
No law passed by any Congress and/or signed by any President shall be considered legal and binding until or unless every member of the Congress in question plus the President in question can prove they've read it, in its entirety, at least once.) The Constitution was written to guarantee a free, not a wise society, alas.
