harvard college and it s professor. lisa fairfax, and professor nina simmons, anthony koch lee. we are going to have just a wonderful time talking about the next supreme court justice. i have been having chats with roommates before the show tonight. this is going to be fun. stay with us. keep being you. and ask your doctor about biktarvy. biktarvy is a complete, one-pill, once-a-day treatment used for h-i-v in certain adults. it s not a cure, but with one small pill, biktarvy fights h-i-v to help you get to and stay undetectable. that s when the amount of virus is so low it cannot be measured by a lab test. research shows people who take h-i-v treatment every day and get to and stay undetectable can no longer transmit h-i-v through sex. serious side effects can occur, including kidney problems and kidney failure. rare, life-threatening side effects include a buildup of lactic acid and liver problems.
yeah, it was painful. and you know . nina said it best. he is the best and the brightest. and if they would attack her, that s what we were watching for. if they would attack someone as brilliant as her, what does that mean? why does it mean for where we are today? it was, for me, a very sad moment. a painful, sad moment. it s like we have come so far. and yet we ve not. and nina s right. for many of us, it was painful. for us, it was painful because that is our sister. but i think for many black women in particular watching, it was painful as a reminder of, really, what you go through on a daily basis. sometimes they are not saying
born at harvard college and his surrounded ketanji brown jackson for 35 years, ketanji brown jackson s college roommates, lisa fairfax, presidential professor and co director of the institute for law and economics at the university of pennsylvania, antoinette coakley antoinette, professor northam eastern law school and nina simmons, senior counsel of the new york law firm of washington and ghetto. thank you all very much for joining us friday night party that we have been having, actually, before the show, and i revere the title of professor and i always use the title of professor on this program. i might slip tonight because we have have been having a little bit too much fun, and before the show, talking about all of this. let me begin with professor cochlear, because, you are the one that was the least surprised by all of this, because, although professor lisa fairfax told the committee you predicted should be a judge,
thrown your way. and that is exactly what ketanji did. and when she carried herself with such poise and confidence and dignified bearing in the midst of that attack, we all cheered. we cried but we all cheered. because we said that that is exactly what we need to do. she showed them, through her demeanor and excellence, that they were wrong, and that she was right. she rose above. and that was a victory for her. it was also a victory for all black women around the world watching that because we know what that feels like. you cannot hear it but i guarantee you there are a couple million people out there cheering for you while right now. i can never thank you enough for bringing this discussion to this table tonight. inthis has really been an honor, i lisa fairfax, antoinette coulee, nina simmons.
in fact the prediction was a little more specific. when did you make the prediction, and what was it? back in our college days, our sophomore year in college when we rooming together, i predicted that she would be the first black woman justice on the u.s. supreme court. and that prophesy has come to pass. did you get much agreement with that prediction of the time? from ketanji, she was humble. she was very humble about it. she just accepted it in stride and graciously nodded and laughed, i think. i don t think that she had considered that at that point. nina simmons, where were you at the moment that you heard the news that your college roommate was going to be the next supreme court justice, and what was your reaction? i was sitting in my home office, because i m still in covid office. my dog was barking, my grandson was screaming, and i just saw