HomeStill A Racist Statement
Mad Prof – thank you for posting the full context of the Sotomayor quote.
Nothing in the rest of the paragraphs changes anything about the offense statement.
Before and after she seems to suggest that people of different backgrounds might see matters differently (I’m willing to bet she would agree with me that it would be a very rare occasion indeed).
To see things “differently” is one thing. To assert that the Latino group will judge “better,” not different, but the value of “better” is a racist thing to stay. She is saying White people are, as a group, dumber than Latinos in matters of judgement.
It’s undeniably racist.
Even the Obama Administration has seen fit not to defend it – they called it a poor choice of words. You should not defend it either. If I were to post the entire text you did, reversed the words Latino and White and told you Justice Scalia said it, I feel confident you’d call it racist. You’d be right.
Good thing she isn’t interviewing for a more life affecting position like New York radio DJ, or she surely would have been fired for it like Don Imus.
I’m confident Sonia Sotomayor will not defend it. She’s going to have to distance herself from it. She’ll have to hold her breath and pray the Senate believes that she really didn’t mean it.
If she meant it, she shouldn’t be a judge anywhere.
The case involving the white firemen, when coupled with the racist statement, has the potential to be big trouble for her.
I believe in due process. Let’s hear what she has to say.
The only thing the President and White House wouldn’t defend is the word “better” in the “money quote” from the paragraph that Judge Sotomayor said.
I really don’t have very much to say if you really can’t understand that what she is saying is that people of different races and ethnicities have different experiences and will most likely impact how they view the law and the impact of the law on people.
I think it’s demonstrably false that “justice is blind” and I refuse to argue from a premise where that position is taken as even possible or even desirable.
Comment by MadProfessah — June 3, 2009 @ 9:15 pm
I’m not sure if comments from people other than the official participants in this debate are welcome nor do I know if the debate has now ended.
Don Imus referred to the members of a college basketball team as being “nappy headed whores”.
I am somewhat appalled that Tommy De Seno considers Sonia Sotomayor’s use of the word “better” — rather than the word “different” — and the remarks that Don Imus made — which got him fired from his job at CBS — to be on equal par.
Comment by bjtwuk — June 4, 2009 @ 2:59 pm