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| McConnell dismayed at the prospect of a black woman on the Supreme Court |
Louisville, KY
Mitch McConnell, (R-KY), expressed deep concern when Joe Biden announced today that he intends to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court next month.
McConnell, who believes that citizenship was only granted to African Americans within the past few days, said that although he "is not a racist," he does believe that black women should have "more time to integrate" into their new status as citizens before taking on a role as important as Supreme Court Justice. "I'm not prejudiced," he said, "but it'd be akin to telling someone who just learned to throw a discus that he was going to compete in the Olympic games." When asked how he imagined Clarence Thomas landed his position, McConnell said that he had always assumed Thomas was naturalized as a citizen after marrying his Caucasian wife, Virginia, in 1987.
McConnell then had this to say about the composition of the Supreme Court, "We've done an incredible job of stacking it in our own favor without sacrificing diversity. Clarence Thomas and Amy Coney Barrett are alibis, I mean to say, proof, that we don't discriminate based on skin color or gender. So, I say to the Dems, we don't care what the nominee looks like, just so long as it's not some lefty, pinko radical Jew like Bernie Sanders, please... though, I repeat, I'm not a racist."
Say what you will, McConnell's winning personality and boyish good looks continue to earn him popularity in the Senate and in his home state of Kentucky.
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