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That is odd. I see this exactly the opposite. To me it looks like Newsom assumed that the best candidate wouldn't be a black woman so he had to eliminate 97% of the field before choosing.
The best candidate very well could have been Butler, but unfortunately we do not know that because Newsom discounted all of her skills and experience and chose race and sex as the most important qualifiers for the position.
Even if he planned to choose based off of race and sex, all he had to do to not undermine his future pick was keep his mouth closed about it.
You are just playing a racist game. The same one that got played with KBJ and Barrack Obama.
Reverse racism is a troupe started by an avowed white nationalists/Nazis. The very same people that started the anti-crt BS that ended up lumping all discussion of civil rights into a "actually, this is racist because it makes white people feel bad".
It is not racist to prioritize well qualified underrepresented minorities over overrepresented majorities. It's not racist to do that explicitly. The undertone of your comment is she must not be well qualified, yet all you want to do is talk about her race and not the qualifications I listed.
She is well qualified. So the only reason you are objecting is because she's black. That is racist.
If you are really concerned about racism, perhaps focus on Tommy tuberville's defense of white nationalists and fight to make the military whiter. Not the appointment of a well qualified black senator.
You're game is transparent fascist.