Posted by
Corthell on Wednesday, July 01, 2009 5:11:40 PM
Do we really need an open racist on the U.S. Supreme Court?
That's what we should be asking ourselves – especially after the current court reversed a racist ruling by Sonia Sotomayor, Barack Obama's nominee for the court.
It's no longer a secret.
It's right out there in the open.
And any member of the Senate who approves of Sotomayor's nomination tacitly condones her virulent racism that affects real people in negative ways because of their skin color.
Let's review the record on this shameful nominee.
In a 2001 speech, she said: "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."
I think that statement speaks for itself, but let me paraphrase: Latina women judges are better than white men judges.
Imagine the public furor if a white male judge offered the opposite assessment. Would he be nominated for the Supreme Court? Would he be confirmed? Or would he be tarred, feathered and run out of town on a rail?
But it's not just empty rhetoric from Sotomayor. She means what she says – and the evidence in her decisions. Sotomayor denied 19 New Haven firefighters promotions they had earned because none of them was black.
In other words, they were discriminated against for no other reason than the color of their skin. One of them, by the way, was a fellow Hispanic. Thankfully, this is the ruling overturned by a 5-4 ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court Monday.
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