your making. so it's really not about you. but representative green is a fine man, came up and said he thought the exchange between you and senator leahy at the end about the arc of time, and how far we've come as a nation, was powerful. i will agree. and i guess here's my point i'm trying to make to the american people and my democratic colleagues. i wish you had that same attitude, when an african american conservative is appointed to high office in the judiciary. so what happened with janice rogers brown? in 2003, she was an african american nominee for the d.c. district court, 54 years old. a little bit older than you. but pretty close. she was a daughter and granddaughter of sharecroppers, a childhood and alabama under jim crow. she was a single mother. a member of the california short.