Such a woman, even if she is not a justice, will have an enviable and respectable life.
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Lately, everyone has been paying attention to Ukraine.
Sister Yu Yan interjected a piece of news.
On Friday, Biden nominated a new justice, Ketanji Jackson, a 51-year-old black woman.
This is the first time a black woman has become a Supreme Court justice.
▲ When Biden introduced Kotangi, he specifically mentioned that she was the daughter of a public school teacher, Yu Yanjie, who thought it was very interesting, and the profession of justice was too special, and he paid more attention to family innocence than politics
The U.S. Supreme Court is made up of nine highly respected justices with countless cases, each of whom is nominated by the president and voted to approve the appointment after a Senate hearing.
The most famous justice is the old mrs. Ginsburg who died the year before.
The Chief Justice is an undiminished salary (the Chief Justice earns $270,000 a year, compared to $210,000 for other Justices) and, once appointed, serves an indefinite life sentence unless he dies, voluntarily retires, or is convicted and impeached, with the primary duty of making the final interpretation of the Constitution.
▲ As the country's highest judicial arbitration organ, the cases hit by the High Court are no longer a matter of right or wrong, often involving the change of the three views, legislative amendments, historically, the Chinese Exclusion Act, women's abortion rights, same-sex marriage cases, these cases involving the revision of the law have been appealed to the Supreme Court
The selection of justices has always been the first position grabbed by the left (Democratic) and the right (Republican).
In office, Trump nominated two Republican justices.
Now Biden has nominated the Democratic Kotangi to replace the retired Breyer.
Breyer is 83 years old this year, and he really can't move. Breyer was also nominated by Clinton when he was in office, and has been a justice for nearly 30 years
Seeing the news of the justice's nomination, the former accountant Yu Yanjie first curiously checked the net assets of Kotanji, and it was very surprising to me that there were 26 million US dollars, or 1.5 billion yuan.
You know, Justice Ginsburg, who passed away the year before, is considered to be the richest of the justices. She and her wife, a tax lawyer, have been in business for a lifetime, with assets ranging from 4 million to 9 million.
How could Kotanji, in his early 50s, be so rich?
Now, there are 3 women in the 9 justices, in addition to Kotangi, the other two are Justice Sonia Sotomayor of South American descent, and Elena Kagan, who is also a graduate of Harvard Law School. The picture shows the four women who have ever become supreme court judges, and they can soon add Kotangi to the list
Let's start with Kotangi's origins.
Kotangi grew up in Miami, Florida, and grew up attending local public schools.
As soon as the news of the justice nomination came out, Kotangi's high school was already crazy, and there were two big celebrities everywhere in the school — the other was Amazon's Bezos.
Kotangi attended a public school
Unlike justice Sotomayor, who came from a slum, Kotangi grew up in a stable middle-class family.
Kotangi's parents were intellectuals, and although they attended segregated schools and black traditional colleges, they both completed their studies brilliantly and found decent jobs, and they were the first generation of college students in their families for hundreds of years.
After graduating from college, both parents became teachers.
When Kotanji went to kindergarten, his father, a history teacher, went to law school again, and his mother worked alone to support the family, and later became the principal of the high school.
Kotanji said he remembers most as a child sitting at a table with his father in his college apartment dormitory.
The father guarded a large stack of writing homework, while Kotanji played with color.
Kotanji says his interest in the law began at that time.
Although his parents were both black and had experienced segregation, and both parents were slaves on a Georgia plantation, Cotangi's family education was always positive.
In an era when society generally believed that black people were not capable of academic ability, parents always told Kotanji that skin color and IQ had nothing to do with each other, and led by example, passing on the qualities of diligence and self-discipline and non-resentment to their daughters.
This makes Kotanji have no identity inferiority and has been a very confident girl since childhood.
"I grew up believing that if I worked hard and believed in myself, I could be whoever I wanted to be." Kotanji said.
Kotangi is often the only black girl in her class, on the debate team, in the club. She was told by her parents from an early age that she had to develop a value that would allow her ability to override skin color.
Kotanji has been an honors student since childhood.
She has been in the school's speech and debate club since junior high school, and arrives early every morning to train with high school students.
Soon, Kotangi won the National Middle School Student Speech Championship.
After Kotangi was nominated as a justice, her high school and Ariyoshi promoted her own debate club
Speaking and debating is a star project at this high school, not only an extracurricular activity, but also credits.
In the debate team, Kotanji met a very good female teacher.
The teacher not only spends his leisure time on the students, but also leads the debate team to raise funds to go out to the world.
She buys cheap and simple business clothes for students from disadvantaged families, takes students to the Wister League to live in cheap hotels, and answers students' calls in the middle of the night.
The teacher's debates are also profound, such as: In the judiciary, which is more important, indoctrination or punishment?
▲ The female teacher named Berger passed away in 2008, and in the obituary of the newspaper, Kotanji was mentioned as the best student of Berger's teacher
It was during his participation in the National High School Debate Tournament that Kotangi first came to Harvard as the organizer.
When he returned home from the debate, Kotanji told his high school counselor that he wanted to go to Harvard.
The answer was, "Don't be too ambitious." ”
Who knows, Kotanji really went to Harvard.
In 1988, Kotanji entered the Department of Government at Harvard University.
After graduating, she worked as a journalist for Time magazine for a year before returning to Harvard to pursue a Doctor of Laws degree.
During his undergraduate studies at Harvard, Kotanji met three classmates and close friends who were also black women, and began a lifelong friendship.
In her freshman year, the four girls formed a study group, of which Kotangi was the organizer, and the study was in her dormitory.
In my sophomore year, the 4 girls simply moved in together to become roommates.
Everyone says that Kotangi is a comfortable friend. "She's never afraid to express her opinions and is open to other people's opinions, and no matter what you say, she listens carefully and then meticulously explains why your point of view isn't necessarily correct."
At that time, several friends had discussed that Kotanji would become the one who had gone the furthest among them. Even directly predicted: Kotangi would become the first black female justice on the Supreme Court.
You know, as a justice, you must not only have top knowledge, but also have extremely pure ethics and near-perfect conduct.
It can be seen that the students have a high evaluation of Kotangi.
Kotanji said: Sisterhood has always been his lifeline
When a girl wanted to drop out of school because of frustration, it was Kotangi who dragged her back. Everyone graduated at the same time, applied to law school together, and even married at about the same time.
Today, these friends remain in the legal profession — a professor at Northeastern University in Massachusetts, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and a legal adviser to a public company.
Over the years, the 4-member sisterhood has met and traveled every year to attend each other's weddings and be godmothers to each other's children. When one of the members was diagnosed with cancer, everyone came together to give support and comfort.
It sounds like a "Great Guangzheng" version of Sex and the City.
In the friendship of more than 30 years, the 4 old classmates have always helped each other in career and life; when it comes to Kotanji, her girlfriends praise her for her high concentration, thoughtfulness, boldness and self-confidence, and she can become the mainstay of the mainstream environment.
The friendship and trust that perpetuated this student era were too enviable.
After graduating from Harvard Law School, Kotanji entered the judicial system and, like Ginsburg, started as the most basic clerk and stepped up the position of chief justice.
Not long after graduating from Harvard, the 25-year-old Kotanji married Jackson, a fellow Harvard-graduated surgeon alumnus.
Jackson is a white man from an upper-middle-class family who is already a sixth-generation Harvard graduate in his family.
Two people are separated by differences in race and class, and it is also very courageous to come together.
At the wedding, husband Jackson thanked the famous interracial marriage in 1967.
The marriage lawsuit that hit the Supreme Court completely ended the remnants of racial segregation law in the United States, and intermarriage has been legalized ever since.
Kotangi's family is very harmonious.
The husband loves to praise his wife for his extraordinary brains, and his two daughters are proud of their mothers.
When Justice Scalia died in 2016, Lyra, Kotangi's 11-year-old second daughter, wrote a letter to then-President Barack Obama, hoping he would nominate his mother for the new justice.
In the letter, Lyra said, "Dear Mr. President, I hope you will consider adding my mom to the list of justice candidates. I firmly believe that my mom is a perfect fit for this position, she is firmly loyal, promises and never boasts. I think she's going to be a great justice. Thank you for reading my letter. ”
Yu Yanjie said that an 11-year-old girl dared to express herself, and if she deeply understood and supported her mother, it was also surprising and admirable.
Then came the question of why Kotanji was so rich.
Because her husband earns more, because the two will invest.
The justice's $270,000 a year is not the most dazzling compared to other high-paying occupations (but the benefits are certainly the best).
Her husband, Jackson, is an attending surgeon and an associate professor at Georgetown University School of Medicine, earning more.
Coupled with the investment, the income of the two families last year was 2.8 million US dollars, and it is increasing year by year.
To say that the US media is also quite gossipy, the assets of these two mouths have been pulled out.
Let's take a look at the composition of the property of Justice Kotanji's two sons.
There are 6 properties, including -
Detached houses in San Diego, worth $1 million; penthouses in New York, worth $3 million; detached houses in Washington, D.C., worth $3 million; estates in Nashville, worth $2 million; commercial properties in Philadelphia, worth $910,000; and commercial properties in Boston, worth $600,000.
Look at this property, all over the United States, nowhere in one place.
There are 5 cars --
They are the Jaguar XF for $125,000, the Range Rover Evoque for $100,000, Mercedes-Benz for $60,000, the BMW X5 for $80,000, and the Tesla X for $120,000.
In addition, the two also own some luxury watches, including-
Tiffany's $5,000, Longines for $550, Tag Heuer for $12,000, Borlet for $15,000.
Watches at this price may not be much in the field of fashion public accounts, but compared with several other low-key justices, the life of Kotangi's two sons is already luxurious.
The above part of personal property is what I picked up, and what Kotanji's story really made Yu Yanjie pay attention to was——
First: The atmosphere created by parents is too important
Generally speaking, the weaker the more they like to complain - what oppression we have suffered in history, how white society is sorry for us, education is not easy, it is not easy to find a job, discrimination everywhere, the world owes me... etcetera.
Complaining in the end becomes a mess, falling into a vicious circle of more and more sloppiness.
But Kotangi's parents were very strong, absorbing the negative things themselves and not transferring them to their children, so Kotangi did not have inferiority and resentment from an early age.
Second, the training of speech and debate is very effective
We generally give speech and debate as interest classes to our children casually, but in the United States, speech, debate, and leadership are core competencies that are cultivated from elementary school.
Kotanji said he developed a habit in debates that even if he disagrees, he can benefit from the other side's arguments.
Listen carefully, look for loopholes, establish opinions, train the sharpness of independent thinking, the habit of summarizing and summarizing, and a clear logical system, and any kind of learning can benefit.
Third, the friendship between women and women is precious, and women must have several good girlfriends
You succeed, she is not jealous, you are frustrated, she does not laugh, you are bland, she does not despise, such a friend has three, life will be much better.
And if you want to harvest true friendship, you must first be sincere and helpful.
Many say that Kotangi was nominated because she was a black woman who was stained with skin color and gender.
Kotanji's friends in particular disagreed.
Everyone said that Kotangi was nominated, first of all because she could be qualified for the position of justice, Kotangi was the most capable person he had ever met, and his friends would always support her, love her, and believe in her.
There are a group of friends who know themselves, daughters who are proud of their mothers, parents who have been married for more than half a century, husbands who appreciate their brains more than skin color, and hundreds of millions of net worth.
Kotanji is truly a happy and lucky man.
The pictures in this article are from the internet
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