Who You Callin' a Pedophile Lover?

You wouldn't call you mama that!

Sorry, I got carried away trying to emulate a sista when I'm not even a brutha, and as I am being politically incorrect, I'll stop there.  But black women won't, now that U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) has labeled Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson as being too lenient on child pornographers.

"Judge Jackson has a pattern of letting child porn offenders off the hook for their appalling crimes, both as a judge and as a policymaker," Hawley said on Twitter. "She's been advocating for it since law school. This goes beyond 'soft on crime.'  I'm concerned that this a record that endangers our children." 

Hawley took out of context some comments that Judge Jackson made when she was on a commission looking at sentencing guidelines a decade ago.  She professed to being "surprised" by the Justice Department's assertion at a hearing that child-sex offenders may not actually be pedophiles but rather people looking for company among people who are interested in child pornography. "

"So I’m wondering whether you could say that there is a — that there could be a — less-serious child pornography offender who is engaging in the type of conduct in the group experience level?" she asked at the hearing. "They're very sophisticated technologically, but they aren't necessarily that interested in the child pornography piece of it?"

As Will Weissert and Calvin Woodward of the Associate Press wrote, "Being surprised by an assertion and wanting to know more are not the same as endorsing it."

Hawley also accused Judge Jackson being a supporter of terrorists because she represented Guantánamo Bay detainees as a public defender and in private practice.  She did so because they were suspected of being terrorists and every suspect is innocent until proven guilty.  At least that was the thinking until then-Attorney General Edwin Meese explained otherwise in 1985 when asked if he thought criminal suspects should have legal protection from being coerced into confessing to a crime they're being accused of: 

"Suspects who are innocent of a crime should. But the thing is, you don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect."

Yes, this man was actually the chief law enforcement officer of the nation for three and a half years.

Meese seems like Louis Brandeis compared to Josh Hawley, whose attacks on Judge Jackson only had one effect - he picked a fight with a black woman, something Messe was smart enough never to do.

And Hawley should know that you should never, never, ever do that, especially if you're accusing a black woman of having an amoral mindset or cheapening and coarsening popular culture.  Because an attack on one black woman is an attack on all of them, and they respond like angry birds of prey on the attacker.  Ask white guys who went after Beyoncé on the cultural issue and ended up needing emergency medical care.

Okay, I'm kidding about the ER bit, but I'm sure there are a lot of honkies whose ears are still ringing from the screams they got from black women after bashing Beyoncé - louder than any sexually charged heavy-metal song they've ever listened to.  Hawley has ensured that black women will be shouting him down as he walks toward the Capitol (looks like he won't be pumping his fists in solidarity with them), they'll jam his Senate office's switchboard with angry calls, and they'll flood his Twitter account with so many negative comments that his account will crash, and possibly Twitter as well.   

The Jackson Supreme Court confirmation hearings begin today.  Expect an entertaining show but not something enlightening.  As for Josh Hawley . . . well, man, I feel sorry for you.  No, not really, I really don't.   Remember - you asked for it!