Diversity will get a supreme moment when Ketanji Brown Jackson is likely confirmed by the full Senate.
But no one can say they didn’t feel the pain inflicted by Republican Senators Graham, Cruz, Hawley, and Cotton at the committee level hearings. It was a disgraceful and “vicious” attack of Jackson.
“Vicious” was the word of the committee chair, Sen. Dick Durbin, (D-Ill), who called it out by pounding his gavel more than once.
But for the Republicans the aggressive questioning of Jackson has become a kind of accepted form of brutality, a public mugging. If you’re a person of color, you felt it. 
Emil Guillermo
On the spectrum, its only slightly less appalling than the moment all of us saw on Oscar night.
Seeing actor Will Smith hit Chris Rock for a tepid joke about Jada Pinkett is not acceptable behavior. It was a violent and physical act. And if you’re still processing it after seeing it, it’s really no different from the viciousness Republicans displayed at the Jackson hearings. You can’t believe it’s happening. But if we all let it go, it will happen again. You’ve got to call it out when you see it.
