Posted on 04/26/2014 7:09:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
jim crow = government enforced racism.
affirmative action = government mandated racism.
Sonia Sotomayor . the poster babe for non-meritorious promotion
If you can’t compete, you don’t belong
“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness
of her experiences would more often than not reach a better
conclusion [as a judge] than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”
— Judge Sonia Sotomayor, in her Judge Mario G. Olmos Law and Cultural Diversity Lecture at the University of California (Berkeley) School of Law in 2001
They may put an end to affirmative action, per se, but the minorities will STILL be found constantly screaming for special treatment.
And, more than likely, getting it.
Affirmative Action is a crutch you’d rather not have to depend on in the first place. So why be bothered with it any more than you have to?
She’s a mental midget masquerading as a judicial intellect of the first tier. She was put there because she incorrectly thinks a “wise latina” is better fitted to judge constitutional issues over a just plain American.
She was put there because this government is bound and determined to devolve this country into a 3rd world shithole.
Just why justices like Sonia Sotomayor should think it awful to "stack the deck" against certain minorities but not against others may be one of those mysteries best left to her own law and conscience, for we can't think of any ready explanation for her selective indignation besides the old, obvious one: blind, invincible prejudice.
Sotomayor is Bull Conner standing with his dogs in the street... It's not her place to decide winners and losers... she's racist to the bone.
Gosh, even a wise latina didn’t see this coming.
Obviously, she isn’t that wise
Was this another 5-4? Or 6-2? (One Obama appointee had to recuse out, right?)
I’ve only heard of Ginsberg and Sortofminor protesting.
I don’t see any evidence of this. Selective public and private university admissions departments practice affirmative action avidly and are working every day to expand it as much as possible. There are a grand total of three elite colleges in the country — Berkeley, UCLA and Michigan Ann Arbor — that by law can’t openly practice affirmative action. Those schools, of course, still want to do so, and have created a matrix of “disadvantaged” admission preference criteria that are designed to exclude Asians and whites from getting those seats.
California will restore affirmative action in 2016, too. Asian Democrats in the legislature blocked the first move, but the advocates will get the initiative signatures and in a Presidential November it is hard to see it failing — starts out with 35% “Yes” from African American and Hispanic voters and only needs to get 20% of the white and Asian vote on top of that; not a hard thing to do.
Gravy train drying up?
About time
I can’t even stand to look at Sotomayor. Her hair always looks like she hasn’t washed it for 3 weeks. It always looks so oily and unkempt.
The accusation that someone is a “racist” is all that the Democrats and the Democrat’s Left Stream Media need today for control a large population of people who dare to think and/or speak the same ideas as the accused “racist.”
Thus, the power of the word “racist” is valid only as long as no facts are required by the targeted population to substantiate the accusation by those who do the accusing.
If, someday, the accused is considered “innocent until proven guilty” by the facts, then the power of false accusatory words such as “racists,” “domestic terrorists” and other mind-control words will be relegated to the low level used by the school yard bullies who tried to manipulate all of us back in the day.
IOW, we, OURSELVES, allow ourselves to be manipulated because we have forgotten the words of wisdom from our early childhoods: “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me! Nanny, Nanny, Boo-Boo!”
Wake up America! The Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement have long since been Won and Done!
Time to grow up America, reject the PC Word Police, mind-control, school-yard bullies of the Left!
If “We, the People,” stand for FREEDOM of speech, then insist that ALL, (especially the manipulators on The Left), listen as well as they speak!
It is time - - - time for a change.
It was a 6-2 ruling. Elena Kagan recused herself.
Ginsburg and Sotomayor were the 2 dissenters.
Kennedy, Roberts, Alito, Scalia, Thomas, and normally liberal Breyer were the six in the majority on this one.
“Yes, there are instances where some forms of racial discrimination may be justified on a temporary basis in order to break up a whole, greater system of racial discrimination long embedded in law, custom and popular passion.”
Um, NO! The only consistent and constitutional standard is a clear one of equal treatment for all regardless of race. Once you open the door, even a “temporary” one, it then becomes a subjective, ever moving non-standard based on the whims of judges.
Additionally, the government still has minority- and women-owned business preferences as far as I know. Using the author’s own sorry rationalization for discrimination, I’m sure those “temporary” preferences were justified to resolve some perceived inequality. Yet, when will that equality be reached and by what standard?
Government has absolutely no business picking winners or losers based on race or sex and is constitutionally prohibited from doing so in spite of what some black robed fairness arbitrators claim. I don’t care if Sandra Day O’Connor, Sonia Sotomayor, and all the other legislators in black robes, aka liberal justices, meant well. They simply substituted their own feelings for the supreme law of the land and gave their stamp of approval to institutionalized discrimination by the government itself!
Interesting how the article talks about busing having been needed “for a time” to remedy past discrimination.
In many places, when busing was put in place, many whites either moved out, or put their children in other schools. So the number of whites needed to make integration work became less and less each school year. Eventually, we saw black students being bused across town to majority black schools. Because there weren’t enough white students left to provide for meaningful integration.
Of course, busing had nothing to do with the quality of education received at the end of the bus ride. That’s a whole other subject.
She was nominated by Obama to be on the Supreme Court. She is his idea of a legal intellect. I wonder if she would even have been on the radar if she weren’t of Puerto Rican descent.
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