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.
It’s called “condescension”
She knew the fix was in and she needed to play these rich old white men
Maybe a new form of torture would be to let her and Senator Susie Collins work as terrorist interrogators
Inexpensive, filling, nutritious and delicious if properly seasoned. What's not to like?
;^)
Wouldn’t that be hilarious. Send her to Guantanamo to defend Al Queda. These guys would listen to her for about five minutes before asking to go back to their cells so they could hang themselves. They be saying “Please don’t put me in the same room as the fat broad who looks like Hugo Chavez, just give me the waterboarding, please, in the name of Allah, I beg you”
Your mom isn’t the only “wise latina” in the family.
Thank you for teaching your children our shared American Dream (my grandparents from Italy, had to travel to Canada to be “on ice” to get their turn to come here legally. They’d already accepted enough Italians, so they had to come in as Canadians! LOL Now, if I could only follow the hockey puck on the TV screen....)
Your mom sounds like my grandfather. He had a flag in a vase in the living room, atop the TV set. When the baseball game came on, Saturday afternoon, he would get up and put his hand on his heart and try to sing (mangled) the anthem. He only annoyed me when he got excited over DiMaggio or Berra. We were in Cleveland and the Yanks were POND SCUM. :)
As long as families such as yours and mine are here, there’s hope. There really is!
LOL
Excellent. Thanks for posting.
Excellent.
That was the net effect, but in many neighborhoods it started through our own bigotry. The first blacks to move into better neighborhoods were generally the doctors, lawyers, businessmen or other professionals; they could afford it. Some whites did not choose to stay long enough to see what kind of neighbors they would be, but sold in a panic. They accepted lower offers than prior sales, and paved the way for investors to convert formerly owner occupied homes to rental properties.
Then the misguided social programs that started in the 60's destroyed the black family and caused most of today's problems.
Outstanding, outstanding, outstanding!! Incredible truth!
Stopped reading at this point: “kind of like Michael Jackson, only not as feminine. “
Sick of the sexism from the left, sure don’t want to hear it from the right.
“Hugo Chavez in a pantsuit”! LOL!
Cheap shot—definitely NOT funny. Unless you are 2.
There are plenty of reason to not like Sotomayor, her looks and clothes aren’t amongst them.
According to ManhattanKids, it's 999 square feet. Purchased eleven years ago for $360k with two mortgages totaling $324k. Her apartment is now in hock a total of $533,581. It is Zestimated to be worth $1.3m, down $108K in the last month. However, a commenter on ManhattanKids suggests $900k tops would be more like it. So, she'll probably make a few hundred thousand when she sells it. What should she do in DC? Rent until prices bottom?
On her 2007 Financial Disclosure Report, she lists bank accounts totaling 50 to 115k as her only financial assets. According to the Washington Post,
When asked recently how she managed to file such streamlined reports, Sotomayor, according to a source, replied, "When you don't have money, it's easy. There isn't anything there to report."
So, I think our wise Latina was one of the ones Barney Frank had in mind when he helped quash attempts to rein in Fannie and Freddie. Her apartment has provided a nice supplement to her measly judicial salary.
Excellent post, Mac.
“MissTicky”’s droppings speak for themselves.
Indeed! And a great American. Your pride is well deserved.
So the minorities ARE victims; just not victims of those they tend to blame (eeevil conservatives)!
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