Comments on: White Men Play the Victim in Sotomayor Battle

By: mike

mike — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:31:32 +0000

dont foeget judge sodomizer won 8000 at bingo..now thats just racist!

By: mike

mike — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:29:49 +0000

looks like rueben is mad at the white man again…hey rueben: your idenity crisis is leaking in to you professional life once again.

By: stosh-o

stosh-o — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:21:43 +0000

all i ever see anymore is latina news anchors,latino journalist,latin judges on t.v., hispanic this hispanic that..blah blah blah…but you know “white man bad!” basically we LET you write this terrible article.. thanks to the white man for being so nice lately…. black presidents.. blah blah blah….

By: Avitar

Avitar — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:58:25 +0000

Connecticut is not a big place. When this wingnut racist bigot of a woman ruled that if New Haven did not have a woman or a Black to promote then they shouldn’t promote anybody she was curtainling fire department services for nearly 4% of the state.

We knew who she was before Obama decided that she should do to America what she does to Connecticut.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:26:52 +0000

Mr Navarrette,

Ms. Sotomayor made a racist comment. If a white man had make the reverse of that comment about a hispanic woman, people would be ready to burn him at the stake.

This issue should not have anything to do with race or sex. Who cares if she is a hispanic woman? Who cares if she came from a poor background or that she put herself through school. Guess what? Please of people fit this profile. These are not qualifications to sit on the highest court in the land. She has sat on a federal bench for 17 years. She has won over 40 various awards for achievements and working with human rights.

What we need to be discussing here is not race or sexism. It is qualifications. It is articles like yours that take up people’s times and keep them distracted from what we really should be looking at: Does she qualify for the seat?

I honestly don’t care about her beating white males to get into a great school or that she wrote from some publication. And I do not care if her getting appointed is a “historic” event. Gee, can you think of a more stupid reason to put someone on the bench? In fact, if it was just a “historic” event, would that take away from other legit “historic” events?

Let’s actually take a look at some of her REAL achievements. Besides finishing 2nd at an Ivy League School and serving 17 years on a federal bench, I could not find a lot of additional information. I know that she has sat over a lot of important cases, yet no one talks about them.

It would just be nice for once if our press stopped talking about racism for once and tried informing the public for a change.

By: Ed Wallis

Ed Wallis — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:48:33 +0000

Dear S-h B #109

You forgot one:

3 : screeds from Ruben Navarrette

(do ya think he might try a reverse-’Geraldo Rivera’…born Jerry Rivers…as a career enhancer, and become Rube Navaretsky)?!? heh

By: Self-hating Boomer

Self-hating Boomer — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:22:52 +0000

Every once in a while, I have to post this, just to remind people that “racism” does have a definition.

From Merriam-Webster:

Main Entry: rac·ism
Pronunciation: \ˈrā-ˌsi-zəm also -ˌshi-\
Function: noun
Date: 1933

1 : a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race
2 : racial prejudice or discrimination

Seems like a pretty snug fit to me.

By: Dave Surls

Dave Surls — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:58:12 +0000

“She is not only unfit but also unqualified.”

She’s qualified to be a toll-taker on the bridge or a cleaning woman (maybe)…just not qualified to be a judge.

By: NMSC

NMSC — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:32:03 +0000

Look Mr. Navarrette, this isn’t hard. This has less to do with the wise Latina comment and everything to do with the Ricci case. The two put together spell trouble. Justices have to be as relevant in the distant future as they are now, and in the future, Sotormayer’s racist views will be irrelevant and outdated. That’s the point and that’s why she, just like Rehnquist, should have never been justices.

By: Dave Surls

Dave Surls — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:21:40 +0000

“because she is not a racist”

LOL. She’s a total bigot, and she ain’t ashamed to admit it.