Sonia Sotomayor Full Quote

Sonia Sotomayor full quote. As usual one line of a long quote is taken completely out of context.

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[BushVersusTruth]

Did you listen to the entire quote? She is saying that you can't think that way. It's just the opposite of being a racist. If you switch white male and latina woman it's still not racist. "I owe them my constant and complete vigilance in checking my assumptions, presumptions and perspectives " She is saying she is actively and agressively pursuing a path of fairnes. She is taking steps to ensure that she is not a biggot.

[jwka2001]

sounds racist to me,, if u replace LATINO woman with WHITE male and change WHITE male to latino woman,, everyone would say that was racist,,, but we have reverse racism these days... No one can seem to say no to obama these days.

[kentube59]

After reading her statement, and hearing it in context, I believe that she says that because a judge is white & a man, he is likely to make a lesser decision because he is not a woman & not Latino. It implies that white men a likely to be sexist & racist. How then, is her statement not also sexist & racist ?!

[netster007z]

@BushVersusTruth "I would hope that a wise white man 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. 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. Until 1972, no Supreme Court case ever upheld the claim of a woman in a gender discrimination case."

You still have no problem with it switched?

[Chaplain161]

Lady Justice depicts justice as a Goddess equipped with three symbols: a sword symbolizing the court's coercive power; a human scale weighing competing claims in each hand; and a blindfold indicating impartiality. There is no room for a Racist like her!

[CheezInspector]

What's missing here is context. What context was she saying these things in?

If she were talking about court cases whereby a Latina defendant might have been influenced by a culturally disadvantaged background, than certainly it would make sense that a justice who is Latina (like her) would be expected to see that part of the equation, based on her own cultural experience.

And in fact, that is probably exactly what she meant. Nothing racist about it.

[petehuss]

Please read this an let it stew (picture some grey haired white guy in a suit, if that helps):

"I would hope that a wise white man with the richness of his experience reach a better conclusion that a latina woman who hasn't lived that life..."

Sounds racist to me.