Sotomayor: My 'Wise Latina' Comments Not So Different from Samuel Alito

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July 15, 2009

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[MISSBEBEBLUE]

they will ask her until she has a slip-of-the-tongue and then they will jump on the slip like stink on shit.

[taoofmichael]

Yep wicaco.

Its funny, isnt it? White people (I am a white male,) are always complaining about people of color using the "victim card." But when a Black man gets elected president, they turn into the worst kind of whining pussies EVER. They are the FIRST ONES TO JUMP IMMEDIATELY INTO THE VICTIM CHAIR. Poor white male Christians!!

Some white people (see Bill OReilly) are faster in claiming victimhood than any two-bit crack whore.

[3411sky31]

shes not racist. you racist people try to blame latinos for everything. They do the jobs that you lazy people will NEVER do. so dont try to say that they are stealing the jobs.

[nightflight83]

Liberal Latina: good.  Conservative Black: bad. Or so says the lame-stream media.

[ugboy1]

Alito, Roberts, Scalia, Brown are just right wing extremists in robes.

[mrbriscoe2001]

wicaco If dividing people by "races" is a tool by the power structure" to retain power,then let's end that evil today;take the race identification box off of all Civil Service Tests ,job applications,college admission applications and so forth;let's go with a color blind policy.

[mrbriscoe2001]

wicaco Never said Racism is dead; but doesn't your quote:all the policies that influenced and led to it(the Ricci case)were again created by a White ,Euro American society argue against  this society being racist?i mean,if aff action led to the Riccci Case,and Euro-Americans created afirmative action,isn't that an argument against the society being racist? That is ,if you believe A.A. ISN'T racism

[wicaco]

Please, the "racism is dead because we have a black president" retort is the most trite attempt at a debate point there is. I saw it coming a year before Obama was elected, and the fact that you actually use it just makes me laugh. If you want to be taken seriously, please come back with some substance...

[mrbriscoe2001]

Wicaco Who's President,again?

[wicaco]

No matter what one's stance may be on the case of the white fire fighters, when it comes down to it all of the policies that influenced and led to it were again, created by a white, Euro-American-dominated society.

[wicaco]

Also, by listing the case of Rwanda, you have demonstrated your lack of understanding of that conflict. If you didn't know, in pre-colonial times the Hutu and the Tutsi did not exist as clear-cut, seperate ethnic groups. British and German colonialists sharpened the divide between the two groups with a hypothesis that the Tutsi were "whiter", having North African blood, thus making them "whiter' and superior to the Hutus. Yes, you listed a perfect example of racism as a white construct. Thanks.

[wicaco]

Racism as it exists in the United States is a distinct form that must be understood in its own right. Where the society of the United States stands right now is the product of hundreds of years of Euro-American dominance, not Chinese or Afghani. What we call "black", "white", or "Latino" are terms that exist in our modern society - they are not universal and have not existed throughout history. They are products of white supremacy and have been used IN THIS COUNTRY as tools to maintain power.