Is Sotomayor indeed a racist, or just in words?
Sotomayor has said, “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience, would, more often than not, reach a better conclusion than your average white man.” This comment, or a similar one, appeared in Sotomayor’s speeches delivered in 1994, 1999, 2001, 2002, and in 2004. The 2001 speech is when she added, “than a white male who hasn’t lived that life,”
Now folks, here are some defense that comes from the left, and look at how such invalid defenses they are.
1. The comment was taken out of context.
UNTRUE. The comment was not taken out of context; you can’t take that comment out of context. Besides, let’s hear from Sotomayor herself what the context is; she said, in the hearing, that she was just trying to inspire Latina. Well, ok, let me ask this question: inspire them to do what? Inspire them to believe that they’ll reach better conclusions just because they’re Latina? That’s even worse.
Huh, “taken out of context.” You mean like Macaca?
2. You can’t say she’s a racist based on just one comment.
She said this not just once, she said the “wise latina” comment many times in different speeches spanning a period of many years. You can’t take it out of context.
3. There is nothing else in her record that shows she’s a racist.
O really? What about the recent Ricci firefighters case? She ignored facts, even ignored the Constitution, because she’s so content that the results would favor the minority.
5 years in different speeches she made the comment and stood by it, and on July 14, 2009, she tried to say it’s a rhetorical flourish or was taken out of context or just outright deny it.
Folks, if she really didn’t mean it, she could have ended all accusations by saying, in the hearing, “I misspoke.” And that’s it. And then what’s anybody gonna do? If anybody tries to go after her then, then he/she would be called mean and so forth.
But she didn’t say she misspoke to end this debacle, and why not? Because she believes so strongly in what she said.
Imagine for a moment that it were a Bush nominee, a white male, saying, “I would hope that a wise white man would come to a better conclusion than a hispanic woman, because she just hasn’t lived the live a white man has.” Now, what would you make of that? What do you think they’d be talking about all over the media? The white man would be forced to withdraw.
Well folks, if words still mean things, then Sotomayor is a racist, and a bigot, too.
