Amy Coney Barrett Says She 'Wept Together' With Adopted Haitian Daughter Over George Floyd's Death

Judge Amy Coney Barrett: "Whether as you say it's just outright or systemic racism or how to tackle the issue of making it better, those things are policy questions." pic.twitter.com/GG7xSnhdk4

— The Hill (@thehill) October 13, 2020

Senator, as you might imagine, given that I have two black children, that was very, very personal for my family. Jesse was with the boys on a camping trip out in South Dakota, so I was there, and my 17-year-old daughter Vivian, who was adopted from Haiti, all of this was erupting. It was very difficult for her. We wept together in my room. It was also difficult for Juliet, who is ten. I had to try to explain some of this to them.

My children, to this point in their lives, have had the benefit of growing up in a cocoon where they have not yet experienced hatred or violence. And for Vivian, to understand that there would be a risk to her brother or the sons she might have one day, of that kind of brutality, has been an ongoing conversation. It's a difficult one for us, like it is for Americans all over the country.

[...] I think it is an entirely uncontroversial and obvious statement, given as we just talked about the George Floyd video, that racism persists in our country.