It was dumb for Newsom to box himself into picking a black woman after Padilla replaced Harris just like it was dumb for Biden to box himself into picking a black woman as his running mate in the first place. Democrats really gotta get over this diversity quota crap. Pick the best person for the job. It's almost insulting to black women actually to imply that couldn't possibly be them unless the job pool is narrowed down to only them. Of course, this all came out of the 2020-21 racial hysteria that does seem to have fortunately died down a little bit, but we still are living with the consequences.
Also now the idea, based on that stupid Tweet, apparently is that it's not good enough to pick a black woman as a placeholder, but they would ALSO cry if Newsom reneged and picked someone like Jerry Brown as a placeholder instead. God forbid Lee has to actually earn her seat. Anything but handing it to her on a silver platter is racism!
I agree. I thought it was a gaffe when Newsom said his next appointment would be a Black woman.
And he said it long before Diane Feinstein died.
If I were him, I would have said that I don't expect an appointment to open up and dodged the question.
