It is Sunday and I listen to Pandora’s blues station on Sundays.  Last night the Senate affirmed Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court for life.

Little Wing  by Stevie Ray Vaughn was playing when the blog came up on the task picker.  That song is on The Sky is Crying hence the title of the post.  There are a lot if issues surrounding this and I agree with most of them.  This post is mainly about white privilege.

What I saw this week is privileged old white men insuring their values are extended by a younger entitled white man.  I use the word entitled because he wouldn’t have gotten upset at his appearance after Dr. Ford.

I can hear his internal dialog,

“I busted my butt in high school and Yale.      I almost took a President out of office.  I waited 3 years to get confirmed to an federal appellate court.  I’ve waited for REAL conservative President to be elected.  You old farts are even CONSIDERING voting against me because of some bitch from my HIGH SCHOOl years says I fumbled around with her over 30 years ago?

THIS SUPREME COURT SEAT IS MINE!!!!”

He still would have had a job for life he hadn’t been confirmed.  He was going through this to get a better commute.

It reminds me of a character lesson I got from both parents at different times.

“No matter what you’ve done you make it worse when you lie about it.”

Kavanaugh getting confirmed sends a dangerous message to young people out there.  It matters who you know.  You can do what you want if you have enough power.

I always knew these were true but Trump’s America has brought them to the forefront.  Obama’s term swang the pendulum to the left and now the right came out of the woods to swing it WAY back to the old days when it was great to be white.