The Ideology of Diversity...

AlphaPatriot links to the following story.

In said story, the Ideology of Tolerance and Diversity(tm), blasts an American Success Story. President Bush's latest nominee to the Federal appellate Bench, Justice Janice Rogers Brown.

From the Washington Times article:

Born to sharecroppers in Alabama, Justice Brown attended segregated schools in the Deep South. After getting her law degree from the University of California, she worked in private practice and held various state government posts. In 1996, Republican Gov. Pete Wilson appointed her to the California Supreme Court.

Mr. Bush nominated her in July to the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, a panel often viewed as a springboard to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Judiciary Committee has scheduled a hearing on Justice Brown for Wednesday.

Born to poor parents, graduated from segregated schools in the Deep South, law degree from the University of California (of all places, liberals should love her), private practice, held numerous state government posts until Pete Wilson appointed her to the California State Supreme Court in 1996. All in all a very well rounded resume, and she is from the Land of Tolerance, California. So what's not to like about her?

Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), enlightens us. "That does not mean that any of us would and will give a pass to an unqualified nominee simply because she is a minority candidate."

First and foremost Maxine, so-called "unqualified candidate" Rogers Brown has 7 years of experience sitting on the California State Supreme Court. How many years sitting on the appellate bench do you have? Oh, that's right, ZERO. The Big Goose Egg. Just how can you pass judgment on her qualifications? Simple, you cannot. So what is Maxine's problem? Easy, Justice Rogers Brown isn't the type of black Democrats like. In other words, Justice Rogers Brown got to where she is without any kind of governmental assistance. So that means she is not the type of minority success story the LLL likes. For in the world of the Left, minorities can only succeed if the government gives them a leg up. Affirmative Action, welfare, etc. In the world of the LLL if you don't get a government handout, then you are *GASP!* not worthy of their time nor their praise.

In other words, Justice Janice Rogers Brown isn't a liberal. I would be hard pressed to come up with what ideology Justice Rogers Brown really is, but I would hazard a guess she is more right of center than left. So, since this isn't about qualifications, as Maxine Waters puts it, what is it about? Easy, a black woman who doesn't fall in line with the liberal groupthink of Maxine Waters, it's got to be, right? In other words, this is about ideological differences, isn't it?. Wait just a minute, he said. When you consider when Justice Rogers Brown was re-elected in 1998, she got 76% of the vote, more than any other justice on the ballot that year. She got that 76% in, you guessed it, California, the land of milk and honey and the Liberal Loony Left, then that argument also completely falls apart.

What this is really all about is simple, Democrats claim to like minorities and be the party for them. But when the minority isn't a Democrat... You get the idea, don't you?

Ideology of Tolerance and Diversity, indeed.