Josh Hawley would see any Black woman as a “hard woke left” choice for the United States Supreme Court. Besides his own “manhood” being threatened, his statement leaves one wondering just how racist Hawley really is.
Hawley has spent too much time looking in the mirror and expects the world to look like him.
Paul Smith of Columbia is a retired agronomist.
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