The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when he speaks.
Yiddish Proverb
This month, four notable events made the news: (1) Stephen Breyer announced his retirement from the high court, (2) Joe Biden announced the vacancy would go to a black woman, (3) Ilya Shapiro tweeted that might mean a ”lesser black woman,” and (4) Whoopi Goldberg said the Holocaust was not about race. As Barack Obama might put it, these four items illustrate an ailing…