Janice Rogers Brown

La Shawn Barber blogged Do you ever wonder why someone like Justice Janice Rogers Brown puts up with the ridicule, rudeness and downright hatred of people who don’t even know her? I’m in awe of her dedication to the rule of law in the face of withering criticism by people who believe she’s unfit to serve the people of California, although 76 percent of the voters elected the “extreme right winger” to the California Supreme Court. I don’t wonder why Justice Brown subjects herself to harsh criticism and scorn. It’s not complicated. She believes in ideals that transcend herself.

On a much smaller scale, I get the same treatment. Since I’ve been blogging, I’ve discovered just how overtly bigoted white liberals can be, while paying lip service to “equality” and “diversity.” Because they hear what black liberals say about me, they suddenly feel bold enough cross the line as far as race is concerned.

Both black and white liberals just can't understand why a black woman might be a conservative, whether that black woman is LaShawn Barber or Janice Rogers Brown.

The first time it happened, I was shocked, believe it or not. I’m sure Justice Brown felt the same way when it first happened to her. I haven’t let it stop me from saying what needs to be said, and neither has she. I’m less surprised by what other blacks say and write about me.

I don't understand why either black or white liberals have the right to belittle black conservatives. The Democratic party has taken black voters for granted for far too long; I can't understand why many of them seem so wedded to the Democratic party.

As a member of the sub-culture, I understand why they’re angry and bitter and want me to go away. Facing the truth is often painful, and hearing it from one of your own doesn’t make it easier. I’m not always right, and neither are they. But it’s important that we respect each other enough to at least consider the other side, not to necessarily be persuaded by other ideas. As someone with the good fortune to be born in America, I feel it’s my duty to exercise the fought-and-died-for freedom to speak my mind. Justice Rogers takes the duty much further, serving as arbiter of justice and adherent to the rule of law. The people of liberal California obviously thinks she performs her duties well. I recommend this surprisingly even-handed story feature story about her in the Los Angeles Times (reg. req), and Peter Kirsanow’s article in National Review Online, The Dems’ Post-Nuclear Nightmare.

Upon meeting me, white liberals take one look at my skin and presume I’m a left-leaning, Congressional Black Caucus-supporting, racial preference-loving, pro-infanticide crony. They condescendingly offer opinions about “diversity and multicultural” this or “Democratic fundraiser” that. I usually excuse such transgressions because it’s natural to quickly size up people based on information readily available. When I rebut these presumptions and share my deeply held conservative beliefs, however, I get open-mouthed stares. With 90 percent of the black vote locked down tight, Democrats don’t quite know what to do with the other 10 percent, so they pull the old plantation routine by turning blacks against each other. While the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) shamelessly attacks California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown, a black conservative nominated by President George W. Bush for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, white liberals sit back and gaze upon their handiwork. It’s life as usual on the old plantation. Chains of physical bondage have been broken, but mental bondage still exists. Sometimes slave-owners recruited loyal blacks to be the overseers who crushed the will of other slaves longing to be free. Justice Brown — unlike the CBC — is not a slave to liberal dogma, and she is mercilessly berated as a result by the CBC and their white colleagues. Slave-owners have always exploited human weakness to control slaves with fear, distrust, envy and lies, and the exploitation continues. You see, conservative blacks are the plantation system’s greatest threat. We’re the runaway slaves who followed the Underground Railroad to freedom. We’re the “uppity Negroes” of the Jim Crow era who wouldn’t stay in our place. Modern-day plantation owners — white liberals — manipulate paranoid blacks into attacking each other in ways that would make a blackface performer blush. A black liberal web site (to remain unnamed) recently posted a shameful caricature that depicted Justice Brown as Clarence Thomas in drag. Without hesitation or reservation, blacks take the bait thrown out by white Democrats and viciously turn on one another. All the master has to do is sit back and watch. And laugh.

I will admit that I never would have felt it proper to write the above analogies that LaShawn indicated, but on reflection I believe she has a very good point.

In an attempt to malign Justice Brown’s character, the acerbic Rep. Maxine Waters called her a “poster woman for the far right wing,” and said that her “legal record and her views on civil rights and constitutional issues place her so far outside the legal mainstream.” Right. So far outside the legal mainstream is Justice Brown that 76 percent of liberal Californians voted for her in 1998. Non-voting D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton added that Justice Brown was “cut from the same cloth as Clarence Thomas.” Why?

I actually believe they were cut from the same cloth, and that LaShawn was also cut from that cloth, and I respect all three.

Here are a few reasons why Democrats consider Justice Brown unqualified to sit on the D.C. Circuit:

• She dissented in a California Supreme Court opinion that upheld the right of a child to have her unborn baby killed without her parents’ consent. Right-wing nut!

  All blacks are expected to owe totally loyalty to the Democratic Party (why, I am not sure, becaues the Dems sponsored welfare programs designed to keep them from aspiring to anything better, and with total loyalty to the Democratic Party they are expected to support the Abortion Industry that finances the Democratic Party.

• She wrote the opinion that upheld Proposition 209, a voter-approved measure outlawing the use of race in public university admissions and hiring in California, a direct threat to the professional grievance lobby. A race traitor!

  Upholding a proposition supported by a majority of the voters; doesn't she know that Judges are expected to enact liberal positions that the voters and the legislature that has to answer to the voters, will not pass.

• In order to forward their far-left agenda, liberals know they must circumvent the U.S. Constitution and the will of the people, which Justice Brown vowed to honor. She wrote: “When fundamentally moral and philosophical issues are involved and the questions are fairly debatable, the judgment call belongs to the Legislature.” This, in the words of legislator Sen. Edward Kennedy, is “despicable”!

  In my opinion, it is Senator Kennedy that is despicable.

Justice Brown — and all independent thinkers — are a menace to plantation society.