Beauty is in the eye of the bigot

 

Indiana Sen. Mike Braun sees beauty in a federal system where the 50 states can decide for themselves constitutional issues of, say, whether people of different races can marry. During the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, Braun argued he disagreed with the 1967 decision in Loving v. Virginia, where the Supreme Court struck down state laws that barred interracial marriage, Braun argued:

“When you want that diversity to shine within our federal system, there are going to be rules and proceedings. They’re going to be out of sync with maybe what other states would do. That’s the beauty of the system.”

Residing in the civilized state of Illinois, I Never heard of Senator Braun across the border in Indiana, pining for the days when southern states like Virginia could pass laws allowing them to drag an interracial couple out of their marriage bed and proclaim, ‘Either get out of Virginia…or go to jail.’

Freshman Senator Braun responded to a firestorm of criticism by stating he misspoke. While the nation debates the teaching of Critical Race Theory in grammar school, it might be wise for the Senate to require a remedial course in Critical Race Theory for one pupil, designed to bring the 68 year old Junior Indiana Senator into the 21st century of racial enlightenment