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President Obama picks Sonia Sotomayor because of her compassion and empathy. Doesn’t this administration do any vetting? She is a member of La Raza aka “The Race.” I grew up in Southern California in the ’60s and ’70s and know a lot of this organization and its motives. This anti-assimilation group believes in the reconquista (re-conquest) of the Southwest via illegal immigration, pandering politicians, political correctness gone mad and birthrate. The former CEO of La Raza once said “U.S. English is to Hispanics as the KKK is to blacks.”
The Sotomayor pick brings about the old and tired liberal double standard. Can you imagine the fervor and vilification if a conservative nominee was a member of some group that calls itself “The Race”? Exactly. Ah, but the left doesn’t play by its own rules. We have Sen. Byrd (D) West Virginia (a former clansman) who still makes racial slurs. YouTube him and see for yourself. He’s been in Congress for 50 years. Why hasn’t the left called for his resignation?
Another nominee that slipped by is the new EPA czar Carol M. Browner. If you do a “search” on her you will find more information than you need except for a small eight-year gap from 2000-2008 when she was one of fourteen leaders of the Socialist International’s Commission for a Sustainable World Society. Her name was taken off the roster when Obama appointed her to his regime.
I know it’s wishful thinking but the left needs to live up to its own criticism of the middle and right.
DETLEF HOFFMANN
Grand Junction
9 Responses to “The left needs to live up to its criticism of the middle and right”
Posted June 7th, 2009 at 1:36 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
excellent letter hoffmann. thanks for the clarity.
Posted June 8th, 2009 at 4:01 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
if “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,”(From the May 15, 2009 edition of the New York Times)isn’t a racist statement then we are living alternative world. how come a latina women’s life is more richly fulfilling then a white man’s life? and how come her life is ‘wise’ and the white man’s is not?
Posted June 8th, 2009 at 6:52 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
You must be a white man, or you would know the answer to that question.
Posted June 8th, 2009 at 7:36 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
It saddens me to see Republicans call this woman a racist based on this one statement. It lowers Republicans to the same gutter level where Democrats have resided in the past when considering Republican nominees.
Posted June 8th, 2009 at 8:59 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
It is sometimes necessary to “descend” to the appropriate level to engage a party or address an issue. And, it saddens this Democrat that we have to descend to the level of the Republicans in order to do so as it demeans all of us.
As to Judge Sontomayor, she was merely stating the obvious. It is that all of our views and perceptions are “colored” or influenced by our personal life experiences and the knowledge whe have/have not bothered to accumulate during our lifetime. What is unfortunate is that in so many this “knowledge” or understanding and belief was not done through any “consctious” effort, but unconsciously. As a consequence, most of what people believe is false, and based upon nothing more than “gossip.”
Posted June 8th, 2009 at 9:39 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
RL: “It is sometimes necessary to “descend” to the appropriate level to engage a party or address an issue.”
In other words, Laitres, it is OK for Democrats to descend to the gutter, but nor for Republicans.
I get it now.
Posted June 8th, 2009 at 4:13 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Sotomayor’s belief that her life experiences are somehow “richer” based on the color of someone’s else’s skin is clearly a racially biased opinion. Conscious or unconscious, and no matter what the “context” of her statement, her belief in race-based discrimination was confirmed by her validation that 14 White and one Hispanic firemen should be denied promotion simply because no Blacks passed the same test. According to a recent poll, the majority of Americans disagree with Sotomayor’s position and disagree with affirmative action in general.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090603/pl_afp/uspoliticsjusticesotomayordiscrimination
We haven’t accomplished racial equality by consciously replacing one group with a different group. Discrimination is discrimination. Two wrongs never make a right.
Just for the record, Democrats have historically put up the strongest opposition to civil rights legislation. Perhaps it is their own sense of guilt that emerges as apologetic reparation in the form of reverse discrimination, aka “affirmative action”. In reality, to believe in affirmative action, one must also still believe than some are *not* equal to the task. Financial aide based on need is one thing. Affirmative action based on race is nothing but smoke and mirror “equality”.
We may not be perfect, and humans being humans, probably never will be. But America has done more to advance racial and gender equality than any other country on the face of the earth. Our Constitution, not affirmative action, guarantees it.
But with BO’s call for “empathetic” Judges, we might as well throw out the Constitution and the 14th Amendment. That’s the one which clearly states “equal protection under the law” - not “empathetic protection in spite of the law”.
America does need to WAKE UP - before BO and Congress destroy this country from within, and/or allow it to be destroyed from without.
Posted June 8th, 2009 at 4:24 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
JMH: “Sotomayor’s belief that her life experiences are somehow “richer” based on the color of someone’s else’s skin is clearly a racially biased opinion.”
Actually, she didn’t mention “skin color” at all. What she was speaking of was “life experience” which does affect all of our views.
JMH: “Just for the record, Democrats have historically put up the strongest opposition to civil rights legislation.”
And the record also shows that those are the ones now referred to as “Dixiecrats” who, when civil rights legislation came to the “fore”, put forth during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations (both Democratic), that thes “Dixiecrats” moved “en masse” to the Republican Party where, sadly enough, they are still in residence.
Posted June 8th, 2009 at 5:50 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
RL re-writes history: “And the record also shows that those are the ones now referred to as “Dixiecrats” who, when civil rights legislation came to the “fore”, put forth during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations (both Democratic), that thes “Dixiecrats” moved “en masse” to the Republican Party where, sadly enough, they are still in residence.”
The “States Rights Party”, aka Dixiecrats, emerged in 1948, long before the civil rights movements of the ’60s. At that time (’48), the “solid South” was almost exclusively dominated by white Democrats opposed to desegregation. Strom Thurmond (Dem) was elected Senator in 1954 and proceeded to filibuster civil rights legislation. His move to the Republican party wasn’t until 1964 - but that didn’t stop other Democrats from filibustering against the 1964 civil rights legislation: Robert Byrd (former KKK member, current Democratic Senator), J. Fulbright (Bill Clinton’s mentor), Al Gore Sr., and R. Russell, (known white supremacist, co-author of the anti-civil rights, ‘Southern Manifesto’)
In fact, if it weren’t for Republican Senator Everett Dirksen’s efforts to break the Democratic filibuster, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 might not have passed at all - at least not that year.
So, RL, your point that the Republican party may have been infiltrated by racist Dems, doesn’t mean that those same Dems represent the Republican party of today. Nor does it erase the notable history of racism and bigotry in the Democratic Party.
The only point being - that the liberally nurtured stereotype of racism falling along party lines, with the Republican party being the “most guilty” - is patently false.
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