'When you see someone who's worked their butt off, has pulled themselves up by their bootstraps...still have their accomplishments diminished, it does something to you,' a student said. 'That hope that America is supposed to stand for, it dims that light.'
"This barrier-breaking moment was met with disdain that this racial barrier is being broken," said Cornell Belcher, a Democratic pollster.
Some Republican senators accused Jackson, the first Black woman confirmed to the court, of being soft on pedophiles and having a secret radical agenda, and that she would have defended Nazis at Nuremberg.
When Fullilove compares herself to family members who lived through the Jim Crow era, she said she feels grateful to have witnessed three racial ceilings broken in her lifetime. When you compare the treatment O'Connor received with how some Republican senators treated Jackson, the viciousness and racism is apparent, Belcher said.
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