A week ago, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis took the stand in her misconduct hearing and gave explosive testimony that was oftentimes combative and belligerent towards Ashleigh Merchant, who is the defense attorney for former Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign official Michael Roman.
Willis is under fire over impropriety allegations stemming from the admitted “personal relationship” she had with the special prosecutor she appointed for the Trump Georgia indictment case, Nathan Wade.
Things got lively in a hurry, with Willis at one point saying she preferred Grey Goose vodka to wine, also declaring that she was “not going to emasculate a black man,” and at another point seemingly admitting to keeping some cash from her first campaign and holding onto it for personal use.
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Not surprisingly, the Usual Suspects in the MSM have jumped into “protect Fani” mode, treating us to one “analysis” piece after another in hopes of convincing us what’s happening to Fani Willis is wrong and also racially motivated. Here are a few examples:
–Associated Press: Fani Willis’ testimony evokes long-standing frustrations for Black women leaders
–New York Times: Why the Case Against Fani Willis Feels Familiar to Black Women
–Atlanta Journal-Constitution opinion piece: As Fani Willis shows, dominant, ambitious women leaders pay price
The crux of the arguments is that Willis, being a woman and black, is being subjected to race-based “tropes” as well a double standard that men in similarly powerful positions never would.
“For many Black women, the inquiries into Willis’ romantic and financial life were rife with tropes and accusations often unfairly levied at Black women,” the AP proclaimed, conveniently overlooking the brutal Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh, just to name a couple of noteworthy examples where men were on the receiving end of much worse than what Willis faced during her hearing.
It was self-proclaimed executive coach Chitra Ragavan’s claim in the AJC that “The microscope you will be under as a woman is infinitely more powerful and subjective than your male counterparts,” which prompted some inconvenient facts to be put on the table:
Dick Donovan of Paulding County was indicted and forced to resign for lying and using his authority as a prosecutor to benefit a woman with whom he had an undisclosed personal relationship. https://t.co/CDHQgXRDiF pic.twitter.com/MZVixSyTtW
— Andrew Fleischman (@ASFleischman) February 20, 2024
“Making women live up to the same ethical standards as men is unfair” https://t.co/CuwChQMqxA
— Observant JC (@JcObservant) February 21, 2024
Then there was this one, which absolutely nailed it:
Could you imagine if the gender rolls were reversed? No one would defend a man doing this. “The soft bigotry of low expectations”
— Jason (@JASONm85) February 21, 2024
Seriously. Are we just supposed to just look the other way regarding Willis’ alleged offenses simply because she’s a black woman? Further, isn’t advocating that we do so a double standard and racist in and of itself?
To reiterate a point I’ve made before, for true equality to happen in the working world, women – no matter their race, sexual orientation, etc. – are going to have to learn to take the professional lumps and criticisms just like men have over the years, and should stop automatically assuming every slight is based on their race and/or sex.
Because doing the opposite, as Willis and her defenders have done, is in effect claiming special privilege – the type of societal privilege that the left has been throwing in the faces of white, male conservatives for decades as a supposed example of the double standards. Can’t have it both ways when women are the ones who are under the microscope. It’s just as simple as that.
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