[Grovenet] From Politico . . .

[Allen Warren]

I ask you to please read the full context of Judge Sotomayor's speech: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/6444523/Sonia-Sotomayors-2001-speech-at-UC-Berkeley

As I read through the speech I realized she was advocating for diversity, not making racist remarks, or at least not attempting to sound like a racist.  And in her speech she was advocating how indeed a person with rich life experience would bring more to the table than someone that has led a sheltered life.

The one sentence in the entire speech that Republicans are holding up as a racist comment is, IMHO, not racist when the entire speech is read.  That one statement sentence certainly is not the best choice of words.  No doubt about it.  But if we take one sentence out of an entire speech, hold up that one sentence as clear evidence of the entire tenor of an individual, don't take into account the entire body of work a person does, then I submit absolutely *NO* person will ever be fit to be a judge on any court.
 
Allen Warren


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From: Steve Jerrett <stevedj at teleport.com>
To: Forest Grove local interests list <grovenet at rdrop.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 2:46:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Grovenet] From Politico . . .

"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,"  was stated by Sandra Sotomayor, 2001.

That my be true, but why the racism? It seems that anyone, regardless of 
race, with a rich life experience would bring more to the table than someone 
that has led a sheltered life.

We all probably know that if the reverse were uttered by a white man, 
widespread outrage would ensue. Imagine the outrage if a  southern senator 
stated "give me a good ol' white man that's been through the school of hard 
knocks over an ignorant Mexican any day."

Why aren't "progressives" joining in to denounce Sotomayor's blatantly 
racist statement? Instead,  such questioning is dismissed  as fractious 
rhetoric.

If we as a society are to truly transcend this hypocritical cycle, we all 
must be honest and willing to denounce racism from all sources.


Steve



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Allen Warren" <osubuckeye59 at yahoo.com>
To: "Forest Grove local interests list" <grovenet at rdrop.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Grovenet] From Politico . . .


It really is sad how our Congressional so-called "leaders" put Supreme Court 
nominees through the wringer. It's bad enough that nominees like Sotomayor 
have to first run a gauntlet just to reach the point where they can be 
considered as a nominee, but then each nominee has to sit through pompous, 
scathing badgering which is mostly show with little substance. And it's not 
just Sotomayor I'm talking about. It's all of her predecessors in at least 
the last 30 years.

Kudos to Sotomayor for not jumping up to run over and strangle some of the 
Repulicans. And kudos to her predecessors for not doing the same with the 
opposition party in past nomination hearings.

I firmly believe in and support our government. But these nomination 
hearings are simply a mechanism for the opposition party to drag on the 
pre-destined approval process to both badger the nominee and also hope they 
can somehow, magically find a "smoking gun" that simply isn't there.

Allen Warren


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From: Bob Browning <rab at jurislex.com>
To: Grovenet <grovenet at rdrop.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 12:20:23 PM
Subject: [Grovenet] From Politico . . .


I just heard Sen Coburn using a Dezi Arnas phrase from the Lucy Show. Yet 
another reference to Sotomayor's latin heritage. These Republicans never 
stop. If you're wondering what they're doing they're playing to the base. 
Recall what Limbaugh (the figure head of the conservative movement) remarked 
early in this process: "Sotomayor is a racist" (paraphrased). That's what 
they're probing for. They are looking to affirm their 
"reverse-discrimination" mantra. These guys are intent on making this 
nomination about race apprently because the latina woman has had her foot on 
the throat of conservative white male elites for such a long time. It really 
is an insight into the sociopathology and dogmatic intellect of the 
conservative mind.



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