(Daily Wire) Virginia’s lieutenant governor, Winsome Sears, called Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson a diversity hire while discussing Jackson’s dissent to the court’s affirmative action decision on Thursday.
The Supreme Court ruled against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina’s affirmative action policies in a decision that will have a profound effect on the admissions processes at universities across the country.
Fox News host Martha MacCallum asked Sears how she would respond to Jackson and the other dissenting justices, who argued the court’s decision was a step back for equality.
“Well, what you have is a justice who was chosen because she’s black and because she’s a woman,” Sears said. “That’s what we’re understanding now, what a woman is.”
Winsome Sears on Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson:
“What you have is a justice who was chosen because she’s black and because she’s a woman…” pic.twitter.com/v12L6gqHLH
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Sears added that the state of education in the country is at a crisis level.
“While we’re playing these stupid games, I’m saying that education and the lack of it in America is risen to a national crisis. China is not playing these stupid games. China is interested in total world domination, and so is Russia and the rest of them. That’s what we have to be concerned about. Our children are not learning.”
Sears mentioned the large portion of college students who need remedial education within their first year. As many as 60% of college students are placed in remedial courses during their first year, costing $1 billion a year, according to the Center for American Progress, which leans left.
“I’m pulling for school choice. School choice now. Our children are in need,” Sears said.
“The slaves did not die in the fields so we could be saying in this century that we are victims,” Sears said later in the Fox segment. “They would say to us, ‘Is that what we died for? No. We died for you to have an opportunity. Take it. You have that.’ We have had a black president.”
WINSOME SEARS: “The slaves did not die in the fields so we could be saying, in this century, that we are victims…They would say to us, is THAT what we died for?! No. We died for you to have an opportunity. Take it! You have that!”
“If you are a victim, that means you need a… pic.twitter.com/hXO6UCAOmC
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