Posted on 07/18/2009 7:10:00 AM PDT by Mac from Cleveland
Dear Sonia,
I've heard a lot from you and about you in the past month--you're all over the news, kind of like Michael Jackson, only not as feminine.
Here's 3 questions I want to ask:
1. I looked up where you live-not for stalking purposes, or any nefarious reason-just wanted to see if you walk it like you talk it, as they say.
Just what I thought-your pad is in a very nice area of the West Village, only a few blocks away from the late great bar Chumley's. One of the apartments in your building (yours?) is currently on sale for over $2 million. Niiiiice. Good to see a humble public servant living large. My tax dollars at work.
I won't give out your address--I basically just wanted to see your ZIP Code--it's 10014. Here's some info:
http://www.city-data.com/zips/10014.html
Scroll down to the above site's pie chart showing races in your area--it's close to the top-2nd graphic down. it looks pretty white there, Sonia-especially in NYC, where no one is too far from "urban vibrance"-looks like you did pretty well--another website gives "whites" in your ZIP code as 88% In contrast, there's 2% black and 4% Latino, wise or otherwise.
I would have thought you'd be living in glory-in the midst of your vibrant, superior culture-shows what I know.
2. It says in the NY Times (5/31/09) that while you were raised Catholic, you do not attend church, nor are you even a member of a parish. Interesting. I know a few things about Latin/Hispanic cultures--just about everyone of those folks I have known, and most whom I've read about, regards their church and religion as a cornerstone of their culture (Of course, so do many whites, but in a confluence of low IQ, incuriousity of other cultures, and boundless self absorption and self esteem, many "minorities" don't know or care about that fact)
Anyway, my point is: You are the one that talks about the "magic" (your word) of being a Latina along with your self-claimed superiority--let's see, you live in a mostly white enclave (in the middle of a very diverse city), you have rejected (as is your right, of course) an institution that has historically been at the center of your culture, your marriage, and your broken engagement to another man, presumably the two most significant relationships you have had in your life, were both to non-Latinos.
So, in what way are your representative of your culture? Other than your activity in racist political groups like La Raza and the PRLDEF, have you ever helped any members of your community with your money or time? I guess not--if so, it would have been broadcast as the lead story on the news by the biased media.
So your life and culture qualifies your for the Supreme Court-how? I know, when asked, all you came up with was some of the food you like (what were the odds?) Funny, I don't remember Scalia or Alito using their mother's manicotti as a reason why they were qualified for the highest court in the land.
3. Who put the trash and broken glass there?
I keep reading about your hardscrabble youth in the Bronx-one article talked about the streets full of broken glass that you rose from--another about the blight, trash, and crime.
So, who did that? You and your family came in the 1950s during a mass migration from Puerto Rico the Dominican Republic, and other Caribbean nations/islands. In addition, the black population of the Bronx swelled dramatically.
The Bronx is now (2009)around 20% white, most of those in the Italian neighborhood around Arthur Avenue, which has not changed much over the years (and is one of the safer areas, by coincidence).
Here's the deal, Sonia--the Bronx wasn't regarded as a hellhole before that changeover-when it was majority white.It was a very nice place in which a wide variety of Americans of European origin lived. The schools were outstanding, the streets were safe, the place was clean--In the mid 50s, the Oscar winning movie Marty portrayed life in the Bronx-looked pretty nice-and safe. (It's kind of like reading about tennis's the Williams sisters-talking about how they rose from the awful, mean, streets of Compton--well, hell, up into the early 60s, Compton was mostly white, and a very nice place to live--it was only after it became majority black that it became a hellhole-like it or not, that's the way it was, as Walter might have said).
It's only after what is derisively called "white flight" in the late 50s through the 70s that the Bronx became a hellhole-Whose fault is that? The whites left because the wonderful "people of color"-your vibrant ilk-were trashing their neighborhoods, and robbing, raping and killing them. The same schools that turned out generation after generation of educated youth all of a sudden-same building, same books, same teachers in many cases-became "inadequate".
When the whites left, they didn't trash the place before they went, not did they sneak in and plant the trash and broken glass later on-that's all you folks, mamacita--you all did it.If you want to celebrate your "culture", celebrate ALL of it.
As for your upbringing in a "housing project" two words--You're Welcome. No one asked you to come here in the first place--you should thank God and Uncle Sam that you came here and we gave you a free/low cost place to live--they weren't luxurious, but they weren't substandard--the Europeans who came here before you had no such experience-they PAID for crowded tenament apartments. Just think, some Russian or Irish woman fled oppression in 1900, had no choice but to live in a slum apartment that they had to pay for-no welfare, no safety net. They made a go of things, were good citizens, and then in the 1960s or 70s, some of them were robbed, raped, and murdered by the vibrant newcomers. Nice life, huh? and you're the one complaining? Vigilante justice was no longer an option-society would frown on them getting together and defending themselves, and the law wasn't much help-now becoming more concerned with the "rights" of the minority criminals-so the people left.
If the projects were trashed later, guess who did that? I don't want to hear about "ownership" either-I didn't buy my first house until I was 3 months shy of my 46th birthday-but I never trashed any of the places I lived before.
Anyway Sonia, it's all a moot point, as your lawyers say--looks like you're going to get in and work your magic on our country. God help us.
Ha, what a great article. Well said! I second it!
I find the best word to describe this SCOTUS candidate...
MEDIOCRITY
LMAO - Great observation!
"Rice and Beans" qualifies me"...
(BTW, I love Rice and Beans)
EXCELLENT !!!!
Mac
Well done. Makes me wonder what the country would do differently if, in the near future, this nation implodes into balkanized city-states, and the Western European enclave starts to reorganize. Will that marginalized little group set up a socialist, multicultural, affirmative action government? Will it look to the wisdom of the remaining Democrats for input on the new Constitution?
Great writing! I wish everyone in this land could read it!
Love your tagline:)
Thank you, Howie-glad you liked it.
Very potent.
I’d like to hear that come out of a Republicans mouth
when he’s questions her ability to follow the
constitution.
She is truly mediocre and so very dim. Her answers make Barbara Boxer sound like Einstein.
not to worry....the “er” clause redeems the closeness of your “i” key to the “o” key more than adequately :)
After my Father died, my Mother (with a 6th grade education from a 3rd world Latin country) came to New York City with her mother and my brother and I in tow. She worked in a sweat shop in the garment district until she could buy a home (in her 50’s) in Florida......never did she take welfare.
She put me thru Catholic school. My brother served our country by enlisting in the Army. Although I never was fortunate to attend college, my children are or are studying to be professionals. She dearly loved America, and would quickly rebuke those who complained or whined.
On my wall hangs the flag she held when she became a citizen, proudly framed. She instilled in me the love I have for my country.
Now there was a “Wise Latina”!
Mac, did you send it to anyone? FReepmail me if it’s okay to mail it to my list of favorite Senators.
yeah, that’s the ticket......
Somehow I don’t this this mouthy entitled mediocrity is going to “enjoy” working with Roberts, Alito, Thomas, and Scalia-
nor they, her
It predicted that she will be a very silent voice on the court and not produce much in the way of brilliance.
I was a paramedic in the Bronx in the late 1980’s. Most people who could get out, got out. Much like Sotomayor. Too bad she couldn’t just say that, “nice place to come after Puerto Rico, but we got out as soon as we could.” Instead she has to act like she still wants to live there. And did she ever go back to tutor, mentor, or do anything for her old neighborhood? Doubt it.
BTW, I can’t stand people (usually liberals) who think that by speaking slowly, they sound more intelligent. I heard about five minutes of her confirmation hearings and wanted to puke. Interesting that if you listen to old audio of her, ranting about the wise latina BS, she speaks in a normal cadence, but for the Senate, it was like playing an old record on the slow speed.
hmmmm- so then, if not professionally, will her social life be more exciting that Souter’s?
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