Play That Funky Music White Boy
The same odious onerous old White guy senatorial song and dance over the paranoia on someone not so old, white, Protestant and perhaps Southern will rear its drawling head again to raise the most appauling non-issues regarding Sonia Sotomayer and she will be confirmed anyway.
The problem with a Wise Latina is what exactly? You would rather find an unwise one?
Diversity doesn't lend itself to helpful differing perspectives in your book? Might someone who understands anti-catholic anti-immigrant bigotry actually be able to relate to the ethnic experiences of Italians or Irish?
How does the flat tire on the Pizza delivery truck sound?
Dego Whap Whap Whap Whap.
That was the joke running around my white suburban Philadelphia Jr. High when I grew up.
It's a racial epithet. Actually it's two- its a dumb bad ethnic joke. Who today even knows Italian Catholic Americans at one time were the object of deep discrimination and called "dego" and "whap"? Alito apparently might know as he spoke about how anti-Italian discrimination informed his perspective if not decisionmaking at his confirmation hearing. He openly told of the fact that his Italian immigrant family faced discrimination in America. No one had a second thought that this obviously would shape someone's perspective.
But Sonia Sotomayer had to get defensive about her belief that a "wise" latina might similarly be able to broaden the perspective and answer absurd charges that this somehow makes her "racist" - against whom exactly-southern white guys??? Are you kidding? The person who writes the scripts on these RNC strategies would be fired from Letterman they are such bad jokes. Seriously- are you boys off your meds?
She might broaden the perspective perhaps on immigrant issues, spanish language issues, accent discrimination title VII issues, and a host of others.
Remember that joke about 5 witnesses at the scene of an accident relaying six different versions of events? Perspective. That's what diversity means in part- she has a different vantage point. And it's a big country, so that's what we want.
She is a juvenile diabetic- how might she feel about universal health care issues? She is a
woman- so how might she feel about access to early screening for breast cancer and the constitutionality of legislation concerning certain health care reformed measures? Might she have a degree of serious concern about some issues that a male might not? She is a woman who worked for her living and didn't live off the income of a husband most of her professional life. What might that inform her about concerning the ability of women to have equal rights and opportunities in the workplace?
I'll take a WISE LATINA any day over anything Unwise.
The Wisest thing that the Republicans can do is not assault the integrity of this person any longer. The more they do, the more they look like complete Moronskis-- not to be racist against the Polish.
WHAT: Rally to Support Judge Sonia Sotomayor
WHEN: Wednesday, August 5, 11:45 am, EST
WHERE: Upper Senate Park, 200 New Jersey Ave NW, Washington, DC
Download and a print a flyer for the rally here.
Tell your friends!
***Rain location: 106 Dirksen Senate Office Building
-- Your Allies at People For the American Way
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