CNN+ Anchor: GOP Turned ‘Their Backs’ on ‘Achievements of Black Women’

Sara Sidner joined Day of the New On Friday, she will promote her CNN+ show. Sara Sidner: Big Picture, and Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court. Sidner accuses Republicans of turning their backs not only on Jackson but also on black women towards the end.

Sidner also continued CNN’s obsession with Republicans and their ties, “There is one thing, I know that we haven’t mentioned yet, but I can’t help mentioning it. The video of the Republican senators walking out, two of the senators not making it in because they didn’t have the right ties.”

Senate voting procedures strike most people as wonky and irrelevant compared to the end result, but Sidner was there to inform them that “This, when I talked to black folks across the country after seeing this and hearing about this, they said this is so disrespectful.”

After the vote concluded some Republican senators started to leave the chamber, which Snider portrayed as yet example of racism and sexism: “And one person said something to me, look, you know, Malcolm X back in the day said the most disrespected person in America is a black woman and that is exactly how a lot of black women felt, when they saw that, they felt like these senators turned their back not just on Ketanji Brown Jackson but the achievements of black women. So it was a very strong reaction to that.” 

Sidner was ultimately a failure of CNN+. It is unable to attract the same amount of viewers as it is for its melodramatic and eloquent ramblings.

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This transcript is for the April 8, 2018 show.

CNN Day of the New

4/8/2022

6.43 AM ET

SARA SIDNER: So she was talking about what it’s like to be a first. She knows what it’s like in her realm and she was talking about what it will be like likely for Ketanji Brown Jackson. There is one thing, I know that we haven’t mentioned yet, but I can’t help mentioning it. The video of the Republican senators walking out, two of the senators not making it in because they didn’t have the right ties. This, when I talked to black folks across the country after seeing this and hearing about this, they said this is so disrespectful. And one person said something to me, look, you know, Malcolm X back in the day said the most disrespected person in America is a black woman and that is exactly how a lot of black women felt, when they saw that, they felt like these senators turned their back not just on Ketanji Brown Jackson but the achievements of black women. It was an extremely strong response to this.