Steve Cohen: “I am concerned about the lack of diversity, the lack of care about diversity that this administration shows in its…”

“I am concerned about the lack of diversity, the lack of care about diversity that this administration shows in its appointments and its actions. In the Federal judiciary, the President has appointed approximately 250 judges, 6 of whom are African American. That is a disturbing and chilling number. In a Super Bowl ad, he showed Alice Marie Johnson, whom he gave executive clemency to, a commutation, and said he was trying to help people who looked like her, an African American woman. He has given two executive clemencies to African Americans. One was Jack Johnson, posthumous, dead for 80 years. Only one living African American has gotten a commutation, and that was when Kim Kardashian championed her case, as Sylvester Stallone championed that of Jack Johnson. During his speech, he talked about the Tuskegee Airman, the woman who he said would get a scholarship, the young girl. The fact is he just appointed a TVA Board, Tennessee Valley Board, nine members--no African Americans, one woman. The lack of diversity is chilling. America is diverse. It is our strength. We need to embrace it and not have an all White world. ____________________”