Supreme Court: Who shall pass?

Here is a useful MS paint diagram that should be used to teach elementary school students about race & the Supreme Court:



The racial composition of the general population has no relevance, of course. Only the racial composition of the qualified group (those who are equally qualified to be on the Supreme Court) should have any bearing on the outcome of the racial composition of the Supreme Court. I said 80% of the qualified group are white and 4.5% are black based on the racial composition of lawyers, but in reality just being a lawyer does not make you qualified, so it's probably like 90% of qualified are white and 2% of qualified are black.

The reason why, as we increase standards for quality, the proportion of black people who are in each successive quality group decreases is because of historical discrimination. The white group made it difficult for the black group to enter the qualified group, so there are fewer black people in the qualified group.

We should expect less than 10% of the Supreme Court to be black, but already 1/9 (11%) of the Supreme Court is black. So black people are already over-represented in our institutions.

You forget, Clarence Thomas doesn't count as "black" because he's conservative.