I think everyone else here agrees with this, but I'll just put it out there.
I couldn't give a rats ass if an appointee/candidate is black, white, brown, purple, male, female, trans, gay, pretty, handsome, ugly, tall or short. What I want and expect of anyone chosen to serve in any capacity at all levels of this nation is that the individual be an American citizen and that they be qualified to fulfill the duties they will be expected to perform.
In 2008 America elected a "black President". We didn't elect a qualified person who happened to be black; the nation elected Obama simply based on the color of his skin. He proved to be incompetent for the role. We, as a nation, still haven't learned anything from this mistake.
I know it's a pipe dream, but this nation has to learn to get past the virtue signaling and worrying about checking the various demographics boxes and focus only on selecting the best, most qualified, candidate for any position. Unless we do so, this country will be doomed to premature obsolescence. Because we're so focused on making amends for those perceived to have been marginalized, doing what feels good and right at the moment, we're giving our grandchildren a future that will look an awful lot like scenes from the movie Idiocracy. I fear for their future.
