Well, the truth is out.
Considering that in a predominantly white environment like the Republican party, a Black person can be rather noticeable, it seems odd that when asked, Mitch could not say if he had any Black people, male or female, working in his office.
Worse, he explained preemptively that if there weren’t any it was because he had no quotas, so, apparently, there was nothing to have him consider hiring any.
At his press conference as Black History Month began, ignoring not only the Reagan pledge to nominate a woman to the Supreme Court and his successor, George WH Bush, pledging to nominate a Black person, both of which the GOP claimed for bragging rights, Mitch McConnel rejected Joe Biden’s pledge to nominate a Black woman.
When he was asked if he himself had any Black women on his staff who could give him a perspective he needs when it comes to dealing with people with whom he does not identify and whose experiences in his state are very different from his own, and whose input could be useful in the decision-making process on his “advice and consent” responsibility as a Senator, he let his bigotry run clear.
“I haven’t checked, we don’t have a racial quota in my office.”
At least he didn’t say he didn’t because he only hires Americans.
He has been in office since 1985, but, apparently, he hasn’t looked to see if any Black women work for him in his office. It would not take anything official to determine that, just a peek into his office.
Does he not have any because there is no official quota in his office or anywhere for that matter, and that, if there was one, well, he would just have to find one or two to cover the quota?
Ignoring any residual ideas of his slave owner ancestors, would he refuse to give employees a decent wage if he wasn’t forced by law to give them at least a minimum one?
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