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Does this sound like she is tryle color blind? It's part of the transcript from the soon to be decided Ricci trial.
JUDGE SOTOMAYOR: Counsel … we’re not suggesting that unqualified people be hired. The city’s not suggesting that. All right? But there is a difference between where you score on the test and how many openings you have. And to the extent that there’s an adverse impact on one group over the other, so that the first seven who are going to be hired only because of the vagrancies [sic] of the vacancies at that moment, not because you’re unqualified–the pass rate is the pass rate–all right? But if your test is always going to put a certain group at the bottom of the pass rate so they’re never ever going to be promoted, and there is a fair test that could be devised that measures knowledge in a more substantive way, then why shouldn’t the city have an opportunity to try and look and see if it can develop that?

KAREN LEE TORRE: Because they already developed it, your honor.

JUDGE SOTOMAYOR: It assumes the answer. It assumes the answer which is that, um, the test is valid because we say it’s valid.

KAREN LEE TORRE: The testing consultant said it was valid. He told them it was valid…. They had evidence that the test was job-related and valid for use under Title VII.

Disturbing!

As long as people like Sonia Sotomayor exist, we will never have a color-blind society. I am tired of these Left-Wing ethnic minorities who claim that their ethnicity makes them better than “white males”. It is another redundant piece of BS. I am Jewish and I don’t go on and on about my life experiences compared to an average Christian white man’s experiences.

As to the transcript: I am also tired of those Liberal “egalitarians” who use words like fair and unfair as political deciding terms and dividing lines. Obama also used the terms to justify his fiscally foolish policies. If Sonia didn’t like the bottom line of the test and believed that those won’t pass will never pass under that test, I’ve got two deals for her.

1. Just pass on the nomination and tell Obama to select a black woman to take your place.

2. Declare the act of even nominating somebody to be put up to vote as being “unconstitutional” and just get in by fiat and because you are a minority. A Left-Wing ethnic minority.