Morning News - GOP Calls Sotomayor Racist

re: Morning News - GOP Calls Sotomayor Racist

Amanda B. — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:35:35 GMT

Twintown - What does a judge's life experience have to do with making impartial rulings based on the Constitution and federal law? And why does Sotomayor assume that a Latina woman has a richer life experience than a white man? And why would a richer life experience lead to wiser decisions anyway? Your life experiences have nothing to do with your understanding of the law.

re: Morning News - GOP Calls Sotomayor Racist

Twintown — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:05:23 GMT

Is context no longer valid? Can we all just toss out random phrases with blatant disregard for the context in which they're spoken? In CERTAIN situations, based on their LIFE EXPERIENCES, some people may be more understanding, empathetic or WISER. Older people are often considered to have more wisdom to share. Is this age discrimination against the young? I think not, nor would anyone pretend that it is. And, yes, the caps are on purpose.

re: Morning News - GOP Calls Sotomayor Racist

Lisa — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:26:12 GMT

It WAS a racist comment made in a pre-written speech. To assume that an individual of one racial group is wiser than another is inherently racist.

Frankly, her ruling on the firemen test showed inappropriate racial preferences.

re: Morning News - GOP Calls Sotomayor Racist

JustSaying — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:21:18 GMT

I wouldn't listen to anything Rush Limbaugh has to say...he might still be jacked up on Hillbilly Heroin.

re: Morning News - GOP Calls Sotomayor Racist

Shannon — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:03:08 GMT

I think that any time fat, rich, white men start calling people of color "racist" is a time when extreme skepticism is called for. There was a context for Sotomayor's one (!) remark that is being completely ignored. She is clearly qualified and so cannot be attacked on that basis, nor on the basis of her past decisions. And I think it can only be good for our country to have a variety of perspectives on the Supreme Court. That's not racism -- that's representative of what we actually are as a country.

re: Morning News - GOP Calls Sotomayor Racist

Amanda B. — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:03:27 GMT

If Justice Roberts or Justice Alito had said that "a wise whtie male would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a Latina woman who hasn't lived that life" how would you react? While I don't think that Sotomayor is a racist, she is clearly a racialist - she vews events and comes to conclusions through the prism of race. Her paltry one paragraph decision in the Ricci reverse discrimination case and the fact that she belongs to a group called La Raza (The Race) shows it.

re: Morning News - GOP Calls Sotomayor Racist

CV — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:21:28 GMT

"...who hasn't lived that life" Okay, there was context here, apparently. I wonder what it was...