The Beauty of the "System"!

I love watching the confirmation hearings. I enjoyed the blessing that a minority woman could stand in the process of the heating of the brands to be cooked into what would make her a Supreme Court Judge for the rest of her life. I find it an amazing process. Over the course of time and education, lessons and experience burns off so many of your biases. She will stand in judgement over the whole law, as we see it in this generation. She is a New Yorker. She is a Woman, She is a minority! All those years of judging that are hers and all that they could say was that she had called herself a wise latina? A racial slur? A racial epithet? She would be standing in judgment over the law. I was very glad that I was not on that seat. I have so many racial slurs to my name. I can't seem to clean that part of me out of my mouth.
At first, I was getting so angry that these white men looked to be attacking, who I considered to be "my girl". I was praying for her, every day and she stood so well with their grilling. Then, Senator Graham seemed to bring it all into perspective for me. We are not attacking this woman, he seemed to say. We are treating her as we would be treated, so that her sympathies for those and that which she is to judge will be honed. She will know what it feels like to sit under the judgment. She will know what it is like to have your word and your thoughts inspected by somebody else. I rejoiced that there was a process that could make one, out of so many different people groups. I understood why she had to go through, what she did. She is a tough cookie and I have much admiration for her accomplishments. Moreso, now I have a greater respect for the process that grows us into people who can judge our own grievances and not live in savagery. I love that she has gotten there and I long for the day that it will be all women and one man coming onto "the Bench". LOL