It took 232 years and 115 nominations for this moment to arrive. Confirmed by the US Senate on Thursday, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will become the first black woman to sit on the US Supreme Court this summer. If Joe Biden and Kamala Harris hailed Friday, in the gardens of the White House, a “historic” moment, the interested party insisted: it is the previous generations of anonymous African-Americans, and the pioneers like Martin Luther King or Judge Thurgood Marshall who “paved the way” for him. Quoting poet Maya Angelou, she concluded: “Bringing the gifts my ancestors gave me/I am the slave’s dream and hope. »
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