Sotomayor’s Racist Comments
Here’s Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor on the ability of female Latina and white male judges to reach decisions:
“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”
So, the easiest way to determine if this is a racist comment is to flip the sides and see if it still flies:
“I would hope that a wise white male with the richness of his experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a Latina woman who hasn’t lived that life.”
Is there anybody out there that wants to make the case that the 2nd quote wouldn’t end the career of a white male judge? I didn’t think so. It looks like Barack Obama was listening to Jeremiah Wright when the later was spewing his racist rhetoric those 20 years.
Archived in: President Barack Obama, race, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme CourtMay 28, 2009 at 6:15 pm | Trackback
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The left holds to a position that it’s not racism if a PC approved minority does it, only a reflection of racial and ethnic pride. As they believe that there is no such thing as fact-based truth, they follow the concept of truth being a relative concept, based on the political correlations of the person commiting the act and to whom the act was directed towards. So, to the left, they are not necessarily inconsistent with their own system of “reasoning” such as it is.
OP,
You are forgetting one minor point: HE WON!! So STFU.
sarc/
If anyone here has heard about Sotomayor’s quote about Latina women and white men and wants to know more, here are a couple quotes from her 2001 speech and under the quotes is a link to the full speech.
“Second, I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.
Let us not forget that wise men like Oliver Wendell Holmes and Justice Cardozo voted on cases which upheld both sex and race discrimination in our society.”
“Each day on the bench I learn something new about the judicial process and about being a professional Latina woman in a world that sometimes looks at me with suspicion. I am reminded each day that I render decisions that affect people concretely and that I owe them constant and complete vigilance in checking my assumptions, presumptions and perspectives and ensuring that to the extent that my limited abilities and capabilities permit me, that I reevaluate them and change as circumstances and cases before me requires. I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate.”
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/m.....ayor.shtml
Sorry, Chris. Even the White House is backing off those comments and saying they were poorly chosen.
Poorly chosen? Turn them around, let a white male/female make them and then tell me they are still fine and agreeable. If so, I buy they’re not racist /bigoted. Sauce for either bird.
For someone who claims to be educated in the law as highly as she, these utterances are not lightly voiced. Others would be rejected for seating on this basis alone. place her into that group.
Look at what Sotomayor said: “I am reminded each day that I render decisions that affect people concretely and that I owe them constant and complete vigilance in CHECKING my assumptions, presumptions and perspectives and ensuring that to the extent that my limited abilities and capabilities permit me…”
“CHECKING”, in the sense that a patron “checks” his coat at the door…leaves the coat behind…as he (or she, in this case) PROCEEDS with the task at hand, whether it’s dinner in a warm restaurant or making CRITICAL decisions based on FACTS & LAW, not empathy.
Sotomayor is CLEARLY a racist, as her own words reflect her “empathy” AGAINST “white men”.
Not ALL Latinos are Democrats. The Republican Latinos…true-to-heart-Latino Conservatives…and there are MILLIONS OF THEM OUT THERE…are just as upset as any other PATRIOTIC AMERICANS out there, white or other, who are not only EXTREMLY OFFENDED by Sotomayor’s racist comments, but just as offended that the LIBERAL DEMOCRATS, and their MEDIA cohorts, have grouped them ALL into one (liberal) camp…which just is not true.
There is an equal amount of Conservative Latinos as there are Liberal Latinos, so to expect the Republicans to “go easy” on Sotomayor for FEAR of “losing the Latino voters” is nothing but fear mongering from the left-wing radicals who are in The White House.
“I would hope that a wise Latino woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a black man who hasn’t lived that life.”
How many BLACK PEOPLE would be offended by THAT statement?
We can scandalize ourselves further by remembering Richard Brookheiser’s expression, the Numinous Negro, the attribution of sainthood and inherent wisdom to select groups by the left. NRO saw the Numinous Muslim coming, and now it’s the Numinous Latina.
The Left has several Master Races now, but they all come down to diminishing humanity in general by the wicked exclusion of non-numinous members in particular, whoever they are at the moment. Mass stupidity like this eventually turns to massive evil. Hang on tight.
PS: The language doesn’t yet have a word for Sotomayor or her thinking. “Racism” doesn’t apply anymore; it’s obsolete and just commonly associated with Jim Crow. This is probably why it’s so easily dismissed by leftists. “Fascist” went the same way.
It will take years of social disintegration unleashed by the corruption and trivialization of clear language combined with the “triumph” of liberalism, before we have terms for leftist self-selection and other-exclusion. If you don’t have commonly accepted terms for things, you can’t understand them as a nation.
“Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.”–Robert Heinlein
You are seeing this in political action inside the Beltway and in state capitols around the country.
Right, and “fascist” applies to a lot of them.
The reversal of the quote is a moot point. By default, ALL JUSTICE in the United States of America has been served from a white male perspective, therefore a Latina woman’s perspective is different and “rich” with “experiences” that a white male would never understand.
“…therefore a Latina woman’s perspective is different and “rich” with “experiences” that a white male would never understand.”
OK, say it this way! “…that a black male would never understand.”
It that better?
“The reversal of the quote is a moot point.”
When somebody tells me that this comment is the same as..
“The reversal of the quote is a meaningless point”.
…and then goes on to talk about ALL JUSTICE..as if there were different kinds of “JUSTICE”, then it’s time to ignore the commenter as unserious and uneducated.
…let’s just say we’re not dealing with a great legal mind.
Our visiting commenters obviously are sure of your skin color by the color of your font…
I would ask them “If our regular contributors are actually black or Hispanic” would they be arguing with us? Is it possible that some Blacks and some Latinos disagree with (our visitors’) arguments? If they agree that Blacks and Latinos are smart enough to have their own opinions should we assume our visitors arrogant enough that they claim to speak for everyone “like them”?
Self segregation does not justify blaming anyone else and accusing others of RACISM.
Agreed, Helen. Where ya’ been?
I’ve been a busy girl, Hotspur! There’s lots to be done…No time like the present and if not me, then who? I’ve been reading all the posts but just haven’t commented…and besides, youse guys are doing just fine without the girl…
blacks are so stupid, were all screwed f u all
To see what is wrong with the country, check this b p idiot’s site.
Brandon Pound??!!! Man, what was the birth mother thinking? And how about the guy who lose the paternity suit, and the other twelve defendants?
Our only hope is that this guy falls out of a tree, breaking his neck before he breeds.