State of the Union? There may be continuing debates over the economy and inflation, but if you just look at our nation’s diversity there should be no doubt. The State of the Union is strong. Or at least stronger than you think.
President Joe Biden’s nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson tells us that.
You don’t break through and make history unless a country is strong enough to finally understand it is time for a real change. A Black woman on the U.S. Supreme Court is that signal. For the first time in the more than 230-year history of the court, it’s happening. For many it may seem like a low bar. But then so does the right to vote. Or the right to public accommodations. 
Emil Guillermo
As we’ve seen in history, those have all been high bars, and in some cases still are. But they don’t have to be if there’s political will to take decisive action.
When it comes to the court, that happened last week, and the images from Friday tell you all you need.
There was President Biden, flanked by Vice President Kamala Harris, the nation’s first female of African American and South Asian descent, and Judge Jackson, the first Black woman nominated to the highest court in the land.
It’s never happened before, ever. The picture is also a simple message to higher ed.
