To honor Justice Ginsburg's legacy, Biden should consider Michelle Obama
By Roger House, opinion contributor — 09/19/20 11:30 AM EDT
This weekend, the nation will honor the legacy of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who passed away at age 87; soon thereafter, the Biden campaign must seize the moment and stake out a landmark candidate to replace the beloved jurist. It must be a nominee who advances the cause of racial and gender justice and quells Republican efforts to bum-rush a replacement.
What it means is that the Biden campaign cannot simply propose to nominate a woman of traditional qualifications for the court. If it is to make history, then it must spotlight a woman who embodies the dream of the civil rights movement. That person is former First Lady Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama.
As the nation grapples with protest for racial justice, Michelle Obama is best positioned to symbolize the Afro-American promise. Her roots in the authentic experience of the Black urban migration connects her story to the story of pioneer civil rights figures like Mary McLeod Bethune. Bethune rose from humble origins on a cotton plantation in South Carolina to found the Bethune-Cookman Institute in Daytona Beach, Fla., and to become an adviser to President Franklin Roosevelt during the Great Depression.
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