https://www.ibtimes.sg/kristen-clarke-bidens-civil-rights-division-appointee-black-supremacist-54877Joe Biden has nominated Kristin Clarke as his nominee of the Civil Rights Division. Tucker Carlson's team apparently did some digging, and identified a public letter, written by Kristin Clarke as an undergraduate at Harvard in her capacity as President of the Black Students Association, that expressed some interesting views on race. While Tucker Carlson is by no means an unbiased source, the actual authenticity of the letter does not seem to be in question.
Among other things, the letter includes the following...
Quote (Kristin Clarke)
Some scientists have revealed that most whites are unable to produce melanin because their pineal glands are often calcified or non-functioning. Pineal calcification rates with Africans are five to 15 percent, Asians 15 to 25 percent and Europeans 60 to 80 percent. This is the chemical basis for the cultural differences between blacks and whites...
melanin endows blacks with greater mental, physical and spiritual abilities.
While some people will focus on the fact that this appears, at face value, to be very racist, it's more alarming to me that this pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo indicates that Kristin is likely someone who lacks the mental and cognitive ability to effectively lead United States government policy on civil rights. Now, some people have pointed out that she made these comments as an undergrad, and perhaps her unscientific, delusional, and racist perspectives on racial intelligence have changed. I think that's fair, but I wonder how we would treat a white or Asian nominee who was found to have authored a paper indicating that whites or Asians were genetically superior to blacks at any age, and whether Democrats would find that candidate acceptable, no matter how fervently they might denounce their former crime. In a still recent case, Brett Kavanaugh was widely deemed unfit, despite the absence of any evidence, for indiscretions allegedly committed as a teenager.
Question: Should Biden move to immediately withdraw Kristin as a nominee? Is a public apology and denunciation sufficient? Or are these simply acceptable perspectives for the next leader on Civil Rights to have?
https://www.mediaite.com/news/wikipedia-locks-page-for-bidens-tentative-doj-civil-rights-chief/As an aside, Wikipedia has apparently locked her page, as multiple edits referencing her views on race have been added (and subsequently removed) over the past few days.